What does it mean to encourage yourself to wait for people in time?

Timely encouragement, time waits for no one.

An energetic era is gone forever, just like there is only one morning in a day. Encourage yourself to work hard in time when you are young, otherwise years will never stop waiting for someone.

These two poems are often used to encourage young people not to idle away their time, to eat, drink and be merry in time, to grasp youth and to make progress.