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Time.

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

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.”

“It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be, be one.”

Marcus Aurelius

“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.”

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Winston Churchill

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

Chinese proverbs

“A bird may be known by its flight.”

Russian proverbs

“Everyone wants to have a good day but not many people know how a good day looks like, much less how to create one.”

John C. Maxwell

“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”

George S. Patton

“The test of your worldview is not how you act in the good times, the test of your worldview is how you act at the funeral.”

“Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

“Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn't do.”

William Knudsen

“You will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.”

Daniel Kahneman

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

“Remember, some of the best times of your life haven't even happened yet.”

“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”

George S. Patton

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”

“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”

William Shakespeare

“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”

“The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.”

Saint Augustine

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Albert Einstein

“Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.”

“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.”

“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”

Saint Augustine

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”

Albert Einstein

“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.”

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.”

“Time makes more converts than reason.”

“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”

Thomas Jefferson

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

“Information is not knowledge.”

Albert Einstein

“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”

Albert Einstein

“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”

“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”