Waste Of Life Quotes

• Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

  Kurt Cobain

  Funny, Humor, Alcohol

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• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Marriage, Time

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Leadership, Waste

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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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• 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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• We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

  George Madison Adams

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Waste

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• Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Leadership, Summer

  "Heads and Tales". Book by Malvina Hoffman, p. 47, 1936.

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• Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Attitude

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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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• Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

  Roger Babson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Fear, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.181, Harvard University Press

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• You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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• The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Motivational, Time, Attitude

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• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

  William Shakespeare

  Motivational, Time, Memorable

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 5, l. 49

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• I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

  Bernard Berenson

  Time, Carpe Diem, Hands

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• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Frustrated, Vision

  1837 'The American Scholar', lecture at Harvard University.

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• Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

  Art Buchwald

  Inspirational, Time, Acceptance

  CNN Newsroom With Kyra Phillips and Don Lemon, transcripts.cnn.com. November 02, 2006.

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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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• But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.

  John Piper

  Christian, Inspiration, Passion

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• The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.

  John Piper

  Greatness, Self, Joy

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• No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins.

  Mary Cholmondeley

  Running, Long, Once In A Lifetime

  Mary Cholmondeley (2016). “Red Pottage”, p.142, Mary Cholmondeley

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• No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

  Nas

  Ideas, Old Things, Sun

  Song: No Idea's Original

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• There is nothing new under the sun.

  Jon Meacham

  Science, Old Things, Sun

  Jon Meacham (2012). “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power”, p.355, Random House

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  Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Change, Time

  Teacher, Volume 43, 1971.

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• Don't coast through life without a passion.

  John Piper

  Passion, Coast

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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