Waste Of Life Quotes - Page 2

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

  John Piper

  Sun, Endless, Nothing New

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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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  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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• 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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  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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• 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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• I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

  Ian Fleming

  Motivational, Witty, Time

  Ian Fleming (2012). “You Only Live Twice: James Bond 007”, p.273, Random House

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

  John Piper

  America, Culture, Firsts

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• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

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

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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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• Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

  Mary Cholmondeley

  Love, Friendship, Positive

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• It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead on the top of them. But it is not so. Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime 'let out all the length of the reins.'

  Mary Cholmondeley

  Running, Pain, Selfish

  Mary Cholmondeley (2016). “Red Pottage”, p.142, Mary Cholmondeley

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• I don't have holiday nightmares, but the worst part about holidays is airports for me. It's the travelling to it that's the pain really. But if there's a problem, I just sort it out and get on with it. What's the point of letting it ruin your holiday? It's a waste of time and a waste of life otherwise. Just open that champagne and have a ball. I've always got a drink in my hand, have you noticed that?

  Jane McDonald

  Pain, Holiday, Wasting Time

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• War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Differences, Waste

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to success; that the desire to acquire great wealth is a kind of insanity. They should be taught that it is a waste of energy, a waste of thought, a waste of life, to acquire what you do not need and what you do not really use for the benefit of yourself or others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Money, Ambition, Insanity

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.978, Library of Alexandria

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• For a man not to achieve the things he has an opportunity to do is such a waste of life.

  Jake Simmons, Jr.

  Opportunity, Men, Waste

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• The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking the heart from truth. The task of apologetics is to carefully remove that hazardous material and keep it from igniting into a destructive fire. Once that is done, the way to the heart is always through the way of the Cross, God’s love for each and every one of us.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Block, Struggle, Heart

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• The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

  Wendell Berry

  Pride, Despair, Waste

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.10, Counterpoint Press

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• The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

  Princess Diana

  Land, People, World

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• The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!

  Lydia M. Child

  Beautiful, Selfish, Distance

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• There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

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• Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Live In The Moment, Waste

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.

  Bruce McLaren

  Years, Achievement, Racing

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