It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
The most valuable thing to me seems to be time, and with time, I can be great. I have been... and I will be.
You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you get to that treasure.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.