27 Movie Quotes about Value Of Time (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 11, 2026

Memorable quotes about value of time, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 There's a saying: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Grand Master Oogway in Kung Fu Panda

2 Time is all that counts. The money doesn't matter at all.

Quote from When Worlds Collide (1951)

3 But what good is saved time if nobody uses it, if it just turns into more busy work?

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

4 You never hear somebody say, 'With the time I've saved by using my word processor, I'm gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out.' You don't hear that.

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

5 In headaches and in worry, vaguely life leaks away, and time will have his fancy tomorrow or today.

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

6 It's best if you don't wait until the last minute. -Yes, but I never know which is the last minute. There always seem to be more minutes left over.

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh; John Fiedler as Piglet in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

7 Time is jealous of you, Mr. Gray. Don't squander the gold of your days. Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing. There is such a little time that your youth will last and you can never get it back.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

8 Back then I thought, Well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.

Burt Lancaster as Moonlight Graham in Field of Dreams (1989)

9 You spend time with your family? -Sure I do. -Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972)

10 Any minute? Some people live a lifetime in a minute.

Al Pacino as Lt. Col. Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman (1992)