Waste Quotes

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

Life, Time, Courage

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

Life, Time, Value

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

Good, Future, Him

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

Life, Love, Time

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More

Anger, Heart, Hatred

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa

Live, Angry, Why

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
Kurt Cobain

Someone, Person, Else

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
Rahm Emanuel

Crisis, Mean, Before

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie

Yourself, Sorry, Feeling

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

Love, Time, Perfect

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

Time, Good, Everything

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John F. Kennedy

Hope, Away, Vote

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
H. Stanley Judd

Failure, Trying, Challenge

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare

Time, Wasted, Doth

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
Demetri Martin

Birthday, Christmas, Happy

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Great, Makes

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw

Time, Rich, Poor

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Ronald Reagan

Power, Year, Nuclear

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

Time, Jealousy, Sometimes

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski

Time, Democracy, Between

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
Michael LeBoeuf

Life, Time, Money

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, Time, Death

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Time, Beautiful

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
Walt Disney

Greatest, Children, Minds

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau

God, Men, Cannot

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius

Time, Good, Arguing

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

Children, Wonderful, Youth

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

Time, Experience, Nothing

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

Time, Others, Ahead

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock

Time, Lie, Sometimes

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