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Time.

The most precious resource — and how to use it wisely.

“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”

“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”

Saint Augustine

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

Thomas Jefferson

“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

“If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.”

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”

Albert Einstein

“We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.”

“What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.”

“Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

“Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.”

“I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.”

“Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.”

“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.”

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

“For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.”

“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”

“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”

“Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”

Winston Churchill

“Death is sometimes a punishment, sometimes a gift; to many it has come as a favor.”

“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”

“When we give ourselves permission to fail, we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.”

John C. Maxwell

“The first important step in weathering failure is sure you know that your failure does not make you a failure.”

John C. Maxwell

“One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.”

“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”

“When God says today, the devil says tomorrow.”

German proverbs

“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”

Winston Churchill

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”

“Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.”

Alan Alexander Milne

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

George Bernard Shaw

“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.”

Thomas Jefferson

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.”

“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”

Benjamin Franklin

“In time we hate that which we often fear.”

William Shakespeare

“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”

“Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”

“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”

“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.”

“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”

Charles Spurgeon

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”

“I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.”

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.”

Marcus Aurelius

“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”