Wasted Time Quotes

• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

  Harvey Mackay

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from Jan 28, 2013

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• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Motivational, Happy Birthday

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Harm, Efforts Wasted

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• One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Action, Recycled

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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  Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.

  Steve Harvey

  Reality, Doing Nothing, Wasting Time

  FaceBook post by Steve Harvey from Mar 06, 2014

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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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• When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.

  Denis Waitley

  Opportunity, Opportunity For Success

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• Only when the clock stops does time come to life

  William Faulkner

  Time, Doe, Clock

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.87, Modern Library

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• Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

  Denis Waitley

  Time, Procrastination, Past

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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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• The greatest time wasted, is the time getting started.

  Dawson Trotman

  Wasting Time, Getting Started

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• Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Regret, Wasted Life

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• You may delay, but time will not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Success, Hater

  "You've Got Style : Your Personal Guide for Relating to Others‎". Book by Robert Rohm (p. 29), 2000.

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

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Leadership, Waste

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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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  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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  Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Family

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

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• You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Time, Golden

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• Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Inspiring, Perseverance

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• Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

  Confucius

  Time, Reflection, Waste

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• What’s the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people’s lives. Where I’ve either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That’s the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can’t get that back.

  Chester Bennington

  Hurt, People, Pieces

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• Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Education, Time, Buckets

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