Wasted Life Quotes

• There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Spirit, Action, Consciousness

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• The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Leadership, Motivation, Mean

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• Tonight, I should watch the sun set, and think of the impending darkness as a metaphor for my wasted life: once it was bright, and full of potential, and now it is dark and hopeless and bleak. I should not make the mistake of thinking that the moon and the stars represent slim glimmers of hope, or evidence that there is light on the other side. Even if there is light somewhere I will never walk in it again.

  John S. Hall

  Stars, Mistake, Dark

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• Life is too precious to waste it with the wrong person. You're better off alone until the right one comes along.

  Tony Gaskins

  Waste, Wrong Person, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Tony A. Gaskins Jr from Jul 26, 2012

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• Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end.

  LeCrae

  Dust, Ends, Chasing

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  You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Meaningful, Peace

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• Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• Don't LIVE the same year 75 times and call it a Life

  Robin Sharma

  Life, Time, Travel

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jun 03, 2016

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• Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

  Charlotte Gray

  Kindness, Achievement, Humans

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• No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Loss

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• A life which did not touch the life of others is a wasted life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Lives Of Others

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• Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Sleep, Novelists

  Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

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• We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Needs, Waste

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 25, 2009

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• Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Time

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 19, 2017

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• Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count, voices that are going to add too little worth to your future. Don't waste time on the shallow and the silly. Tune those voices out and tune in voices that are going to add something to your life

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Time

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 27, 2012

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• I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fall, Despair, Hopeless

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.428, Anchor

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• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Ambition

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 03, 2014

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• God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.

  John Piper

  Dream, Passion, Thinking

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

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• When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

  Byron Katie

  Wind, Safety, Priorities

  Twitter post from Dec 18, 2012

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• How strange! You lose a little from you and you cry. And your whole life is wasting and you're laughing

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Laughing, Littles, Strange

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• Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

  John Hughes

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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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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  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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• If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.43, Tuttle Publishing

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