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Time.

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

“Never let yesterday use up too much of today.”

“Don’t wait, the time will never be just right.”

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

Martin Luther King

“Do not give your past the power to define your future.”

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

Cormac McCarthy

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”

Alexander Graham Bell

“Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.”

Jordan Peterson

“To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”

“There always comes a time when giving up is easier than standing up, when giving in looks more attractive than digging in. And in those moments, character may be the only thing you have to draw on to keep you going.”

John C. Maxwell

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.”

“We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.”

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

Alan Alexander Milne

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”

“If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?”

Oliver Goldsmith

“When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”

“One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do things you've always wanted. Do it now.”

“Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.”

William Arthur Ward

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.”

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

“There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.”

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.”

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

Thomas Jefferson

“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”

“We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.”

“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”

“Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.”

“All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.”

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

Winston Churchill

“Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.”

Charles Spurgeon

“The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'”

“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”

William Shakespeare

“Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real right and wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

William Shakespeare

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

Thomas Jefferson

“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”

“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”

“Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.”

“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.”

Abraham Lincoln

“It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.”

“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.”