Waste Quotes

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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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• All Scripture is God-breathed and He doesn't waste His breath.

  Jim McCotter

  Bible, Scripture, Breaths

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• I have never read it. You should not waste your time.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Economics, Should

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• Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Death, Positivity

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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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• Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Time, Integrity, Insperational

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book X, Chapter 16), circa 170.

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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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• Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself

  Baz Luhrmann

  Moving On, Time, Race

  Song: Everybody's Free

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• Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Progress, Matter, Wasting Time

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• Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a

  George S. Clason

  Opportunity, Preparation, Goddess

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• When others kid me about being bald, I simply tell them that the way I figure it, the good Lord only gave men so many hormones, and if others want to waste theirs on growing hair, that's up to them.

  John Glenn

  Funny, Sex, Humorous

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

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Leadership, Wasting Time

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• Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

  Kurt Cobain

  Respect, Time, Memories

  Rolling Stone Magazine, April 16, 1992.

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• With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Success, Men, Tyrants

  William Lloyd Garrison, Walter McIntosh Merrill, Louis Ruchames (1971). “The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• Don't waste your time on jealousy.

  Mary Schmich

  Sunscreen, Don't Waste Your Time, Don't Waste 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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• 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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• Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.

  Rick Warren

  Pain, Helping Others, Use

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.225, Zondervan

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• Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Time, Loss, Lost Friendship

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• I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

  Neil Armstrong

  Running, Believe, Exercise

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• Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Weekend, Bed, Literature

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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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• To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Inspirational, Happiness, Karma

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• We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Money, Peace

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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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• The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Scarcity, Resources, Plenty

  Thomas Love Peacock (1875). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc”, p.208

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