Don't Waste Time Quotes

• If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.10, Tuttle Publishing

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• Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

  Mary Schmich

  Jealousy, Waste, Wasting Time

  "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young". Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1997.

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• Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

  Helen Rowland

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Men

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.69, Lulu.com

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• Remember, don't waste time comparing your life to others who seem more fortunate. Being fortunate is based on how much peace you have, not how many luxuries or conveniences you have. Practice from the heart to make peace with what is.

  Doc Childre

  Spiritual, Heart, Practice

  Doc Lew Childre (1992). “The how to book of teen self discovery: helping teens find balance, security & esteem”, HeartMath

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  A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Attitude, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 17, 2017

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• It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

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

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

  William Penn

  Time, Top Management, Want

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• Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Time, Want

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• Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Past, Thinking

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

  Anthony Charles Richards

  Time, Motivation, Men

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• Don't waste your time on jealousy.

  Mary Schmich

  Waste, Sunscreen, Don't Waste Your Time

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

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• Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Waste, Wasting Time

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Go ahead with your life, your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.

  Richard L. Evans

  Stopping, Waste, Wasting Time

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• Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love Life, Waste, Time Management

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• People think that you're supposed to marry your type well, I didn't marry my type. It's much more practical, and based in a day-to-day existence. So when you have that, and you're happy, and you love her, don't waste time. Because time - and I've learned that at this point in my life - time is my most precious commodity. Nothing is more precious than time. Because when it runs out that's it

  Michael Ealy

  Running, Thinking, People

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