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Time.

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

“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”

“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before - more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”

Charles Dickens

“Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”

“Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.”

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

“Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.”

“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.”

William Wordsworth

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”

“If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.”

“If you lose an hour in the morning, you have to hunt for it the rest of the day.”

Chinese proverbs

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

Oliver Goldsmith

“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”

Winston Churchill

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

Bertrand Russell

“Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.”

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

George Bernard Shaw

“To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.”

“You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”

Albert Einstein

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

Albert Einstein

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”

“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.”

“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”

Winston Churchill

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

“Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.”

“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.”

“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”

“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”

Winston Churchill

“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”

“Lost time is never found again.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.”

Winston Churchill

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.”

Chinese proverbs

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

Japanese proverbs

“The future you shall know when it has come; before then forget it.”

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”

Jean Paul Sartre

“Do not pay too much attention to money fame or power someday you'll meet person who cares for none of these and then you'll know how poor you're.”

“One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.”

John C. Maxwell