Seneca the Younger Quotes

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Nothing is ours except time.

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.

I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

The most precious resource we have is time.

FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.

Time is something that cannot be bought; it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply, Time is simply how you live your life.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I'd normally say because I've got a meeting with them soon - if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can't get the time back.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.