There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. — Michelangelo
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. — Bertrand Russell
Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
love's just a waste of energy and life's just a waste of time so why don't we get together we could waste everything tonight — Jack Johnson
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. — Anonymous
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. — Syd Barrett
One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time. — Sean Covey
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. — John Lennon
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. — Mignon McLaughlin
Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible. — Laura Schlessinger
All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God — Lahiri Mahasaya
Short Wasting Your Time Quotes
The single biggest time waster in the world is not completing what you start. — John Nance Garner
We waste our time with short-term thinking and busywork. — Naval Ravikant
To do unnecessary and very long work, to do nothing effective. — French Proverbs
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. — William Shakespeare
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. — Charles Dickens
Time is a precious thing. Never waste it. — Gene Wilder
Don't waste time putting forward arguments in good faith in the face of people of bad faith. — Moroccan Proverbs
If you were doing something safe, something you already knew could be done, you were wasting time. — Scott Kelly
Any time not spent on love is wasted. — Torquato Tasso
Life is wasted on the living. — Douglas Adams
Top 10 Wasting Your Time Quotes
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
You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count. — Nancy Reagan
Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people. — Joel Osteen
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
Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard
Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours. — Steve Harvey
Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer. — Leo Buscaglia
You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either. — Galen Rowell
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. — Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. — Steve Jobs
Wasting Your Time Image Quotes
Don't wait for a more convenient day to discipline your mind! — T. B. Joshua
Don't waste your time looking back, you're not going that way.
Stop Wasting Your Time Quotes
Whatever life may send your way - make the best of it. Don't waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation. — Les Brown
Pause and remember - Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen. — Jennifer Young
If you want to measure social media ROI, stop wasting your time doing software demos and attending webinars. Just figure out what you want to track, where you can track it, think about both current customers and new customers, and go do it. — Jay Baer
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data that isn't leading to strategic action stop wasting your time and look for more Actionable Analytics. — Thomas Carlyle
I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books. — Jimmy Carr
Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time. — Christine Quinn
Don't waste your time with explanations people only hear what they want to hear.
Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end. — Gary Vaynerchuk
Go ahead with your life, your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started. — Richard L. Evans
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
Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential. — Bruce Lee
Someone Wasting Your Time Quotes
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. — C. S. Lewis
I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something and if you are not making someone else's life better then you are wasting your time. — Will Smith
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work. — Alfred Hitchcock
If you love life, dont waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time.
Your life will become better by making other lives better. — Will Smith
If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others. — Paulo Coelho
Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life. — Jess C Scott
Don't spend time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door.
The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time. — Seth Godin
If a guy can't handle your natural hair, he's weak. Why waste time on someone like that? — Petra Collins
Do good work and let that speak for itself. Don't waste time arguing with someone. Instead, show them in your work. That's easier said than done, but it really is the best solution. No one can argue with good work. — Megan Alexander
If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time. — Ingrid Weir
Not Wasting Your Time Quotes
You need to associate with people who inspire you,
people that challenge you to raise higher,
people that make you better.
Don't waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth.
Your destiny is too important. — Joel Osteen
If you do not give 110% in your life, I promise your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. Time is the most valuable asset on Earth, a depreciating asset, don’t waste another moment of life where you are not at your fullest potential getting the most out of the time you have in life. — Greg Plitt
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash. — Sergei Rachmaninoff
Don't waste your time with explanations. People only hear what they want to hear.
To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. — Robert A. Heinlein
Big thinking, followed by little doing, results in a big waste of time.
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema. — Serge Daney
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
I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time! — Tom Petty
To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking. — Alexander Elder
Wasting My Time Quotes
I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people. — Tyga
I don't regret my past, I just regret the time I've wasted on the wrong people. — Wiz Khalifa
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. — Steve Jobs
Time = Life, therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.
Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave. — Lennart Meri
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. — Paulo Coelho
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. — Jack London
Be a good person, but don't waste time to prove it.
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. — William Faulkner
Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man. — The Notorious B.I.G.
I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment. — Malcolm X
Wasting Time Quotes
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
A vision without action is merely a dream
Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence — Kevin Gates
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
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
All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes. — Taiichi Ohno
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time — Iris Apfel
There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish. — Julius Nyerere
I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever. — Ferdinand Marcos
You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish. — Oscar Romero
Wasted My Time Quotes
I wish my fans will always be nice to one another. Don't waste time & enjoy life — Jessica Jung
They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of time. That is what I choose to do with my life. — Miki Dora
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent. — Carl Sandburg
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time. — Phil Donahue
No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find. — Buju Banton
I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go. — Katie Hoff
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. — William Shakespeare
Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that. — Judy Blundell
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. — Rita Mae Brown
Voting is a meaningless exercise. I'm not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don't. Everything is done to you in this country. — George Carlin
Wasting Money Quotes
... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything. — Ulysses S. Grant
Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you. — Mark Twain
Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems — Kevin Mitnick
I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted. — W. C. Fields
College degrees becoming increasingly worthless. This will only get worse. Why are we wasting money and resources on this? Fake degrees remove 3-5 labour years from market and cost public money spent on pointless edubureacracies. — Philip Pilkington
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? — Michael Torke
If the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else. — Clement Attlee
I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold. — Big Sean
Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. — Charles Spurgeon
One of the recurring themes in Marcus' handbook is leadership's responsibility to work intelligently with what it is given and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices. — Marcus Aurelius
Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit? — Pat Conroy
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started. — Dawson Trotman
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
I try not to waste time feeling bad for myself, because when I do, there's no room for happiness. — Sam Berns
You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time. — Edgar Degas
The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours. — Frank Bettger
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole. — Pope John Paul II
Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life. — Henri Nouwen
Wasted Time In Life Quotes
Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you. — LeCrae
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. — Isabel Allende
Now is our time. It's our time to chase rainbows and build castles in the sky. It's our time to create a life that we love. Because someday, it will no longer be our time. — Shawn Anderson
All things happen in their proper time. Everything in life happens in the time allocated for it. Don't waste energy worrying about end results. Worrying only distracts you from living day to day and enjoying life! — James Van Praagh
Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time. — Paulo Coelho
We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is. — Thomas W. Bennett
And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time. — Donald Miller
Life is so short. Grudges are a waste of time. Laugh when you can, apologise when you should, and trust God with what you cannot change. — Nicky Gumbel
All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time. — David Walliams
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid. — Alan Watts
Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you, but concentrate instead on those who will appreciate your responsibility to them, and, likewise, feel responsible to you. — Anton Szandor LaVey
Vexation of spirit is a waste of time Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts Verbal conflict is a waste of word Physical conflict is a waste of flesh People will always be who they want And that's what really makes the world go round Unconditional love is scarce. — Damian Marley
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
Don't waste your time consuming what makes you weak. Spend your time pressing in for the Presence. Become so intimate with Jesus, so full of Him, that it does not matter what challenges in life present themselves to you. You will be so spiritually full that you can feed a multitude of other people's needs. Jesus will give you more than enough. — Heidi Baker
Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same. — Dan Millman
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
Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you. — dream hampton
Cancer changes your life, often for the better. You learn what's important, you learn to prioritize, and you learn not to waste your time. You tell people you love them. My friend Gilda Radner used to say, 'If it wasn't for the downside, having cancer would be the best thing and everyone would want it.' That's true. If it wasn't for the downside. — Gilda Radner
If you spend hours and hours of your life acquiring money and then die without spending all of that money, then you've needlessly wasted too many precious hours of your life. There is just no way to get those hours back. If you die with $1 million left, that's $1 million of experiences you didn't have. And if you die with $50,000 left, well, that's $50,000 of experiences you didn't have. No way is that optimal. The question we all must answer is how to make the most of our finite time on earth. — Bill Perkins
Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come. — Mario Quintana
If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward. — Oprah Winfrey
Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best. — Laurence Olivier
For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself. — John Fante
Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach. — Jim Rohn
Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. — Steve Jobs
If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together. — Lilla Watson
You need a routine. Otherwise you will waste time. Mornings are where the magic happens. Strengthen your body and mind. Get shit done. Then interact with the world. — Tom Bilyeu
When married, you're a 1 woman man, when single, you're a 1 woman man! Live like she's out there and stop goofin round with girls you have no future with! Don't waste your singleness. Use this season to know God more deeply, serve others, be generous with your time, $$$ & talents. Be satisfied in Him! — Andy Mineo
If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth. — Roberto Clemente
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
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