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Time.

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

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”

“All men by nature desire knowledge.”

“Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.”

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

“We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.”

William Shakespeare

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”

Albert Einstein

“Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

William Shakespeare

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.”

“Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.”

William Wordsworth

“You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.”

“Everywhere I go I find that people... both leaders and individuals... are asking one basic question, 'Is there any hope for the future?' My answer is the same, 'Yes, through Jesus Christ.'”

“Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.”

Spanish proverbs

“A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.”

“A tree is known by its fruit, a man by his deeds.”

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there.”

“The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.”

“Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.”

“Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.”

Polish proverbs

“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.”

“One today is worth two tomorrows.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.”

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one'.”

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

William Shakespeare

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

William Shakespeare

“Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.”

Swedish proverbs

“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“Better know a little too much than too little.”

Norwegian proverbs

“Time discovers truth.”

“Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.”

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”

“In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Time and words can't be recalled, even if it was only yesterday.”

Estonian proverbs

“Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”

“It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”

“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.”

Charles Dickens

“Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.”

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”

Michael Altshuler

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.”

“What the child hears at the fire is soon known at the minster.”

French proverbs

“The remedy for hard times is to have patience.”

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery