Waste Of Life Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

  Orison Swett Marden (2005). “An Iron Will”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  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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  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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• Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

  John Piper

  Sun, Endless, Nothing New

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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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• Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Time, Short Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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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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• There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

  Jules Breton

  Old Things, Sun, Originality

  Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

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

  George Madison Adams

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Waste

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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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• America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

  John Piper

  America, Culture, Firsts

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