The ancient famous sayings about cherishing time are as follows
1. If a young man does not work hard, he will become a sad old man. ("Long Song Xing")
2. The prime years will never come again, and the morning will never come again. Be encouraged in time, time waits for no one. (Miscellaneous Poems by Tao Yuanming of Jin Dynasty)
3. What is lost in the east is gained in mulberry trees. -- "Book of the Later Han·Feng Yi Zhuan"
4. Time is life, time is speed, and time is power. (Guo Moruo)
5. Time is like water in a sponge, as long as you are willing to squeeze, there is always some. (Lu Xun)
6. Time is made up of minutes and seconds. Only those who are good at using sporadic time will achieve greater results. (Hua Luogeng)
7. The deceased is like a man, never giving up day and night (Confucius)
8. The sky can be mended, the sea can be filled, and the Nanshan Mountain can be moved. The sun and the moon have passed and cannot be traced back. (Zeng Guofan)
9. An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.
10. Of all critics, the greatest, most correct, and most genius is time. (Belinsky)
11. People with lofty ideals cherish the short days, but worry about others knowing that the nights are long. -- Jin·Fu Xuan
12. The east corner has passed, and it is not too late to mulberry trees. --Wang Bo of the Tang Dynasty
13. Winter is the remainder of the year, night is the remainder of the day, and rain is the remainder of the hour. - "Three Kingdoms·Book of Wei·Biography of Wang Su" Pei Songzhi's annotation quoted from "Wei Lue"
14. Wasted time is equal to wasted life. (Kawabata Yasunari)
15. Today is today again, how little today is! It’s been a hundred years since I lived my life. It’s a pity that I can’t live today!
16. The wind is blowing in the daytime, and the scenery is flowing westward. --Three Kingdoms·Wei·Cao Zhi
17. Tomorrow comes tomorrow, and there are so many tomorrows. If I wait for tomorrow, everything will be wasted.
18. Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is the stuff of life. (Franklin)
19. Years are hard to keep, and time is easy to lose.
20. Those who abandon time, time also abandons him. (Shakespeare)
21. I advise you not to cherish your gold-threaded clothes; I advise you to cherish your youth. If there are flowers, you must break them off. Don’t wait until there are no flowers. (Tang Dynasty's "Golden Threaded Clothes")
22. In life, if a white horse passes through the gap between heaven and earth, it will happen suddenly. (Zhuangzi)
23. How long is life? It passes like morning frost. When the time comes, the flowers are no longer sunny. --Jin·Luji
24. People mislead the land for a while, and the land misleads the people for a year.
25. The lights are on at three o'clock and the rooster is on the fifth o'clock. It's the time when men are studying. Black-haired people don't know how to study early, but white-haired people regret that they are too late to study.
26. It's easy for a young man to learn but hard to become an old man. Time is not taken lightly.