Quotation Explorer - 'Wasted'

The only thing worse than the fear of death is the fear of a wasted life.
Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. - - Muhammad Ali
A day without love and gratitude is a day without significance and wasted. - Debasish Mridha
We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. Life is short. - Erich Maria Marque
A new week means new goals. New goals means new success. No goals mean no success and no success means a wasted week. - Onyi Anyado
You can have all the words in the world,but if not said rightly, those words are simply wasted potential. - Joel T. McGrath
It's not that I don't enjoy it, but it's kind of like a trip to Disneyland. You get so excited about a ride on the Matterhorn, and then when it's over, you realize you wasted all that time in line for a minute and a half upside down and the chance to throw up.
I wasted time and now doth time waste me. - William Shakespeare
A very beautiful day without love, kindness, and gratitude is a very wasted day. - Debasish Mridha
I wasted time, now time doth waste me. - William Shakespeare
If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed. - Lorii Myers
I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life... - Mordecai Richler
Life to me is a beautiful gift from from AdoShem that should not be wasted but shared with others. Including amazing revelations that are meant to be seen and meant to be told for such a time as this! - Sipporah Joseph
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’dTo dwell in presence of immortal youth,Immortal age beside immortal youth,And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus - Alfred Tennyson
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. - Muhammad Ali
The chief beauty about timeis that you cannot waste it in advance.The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,as perfect, as unspoiled,as if you had never wasted or misapplieda single moment in all your life.You can turn over a new leaf every hourif you choose. - Arnold Bennett
Any time not spent on love is wasted. - Torquato Tasso
The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. - Anne Rice
A joke explained is a joke wasted.
I lost myself in finding you, nothing has made me feel so wasted ever. - Nigar Siddiqui
Think about those who deserve your time and emotions. Because, valuable things should never be wasted and should be delivered with care to those who deserve it. - Rakesh Akuthota
I had lots of good intentions but I wasted them on people who didn't deserve them... - Bellamkonda Avinash Babu
Ignoring your intuition telling you this person is not for you will likely lead to more time wasted and more disappointments along the way. - Stephan Labossiere
The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money; focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has ‘interest’! - Dada Bhagwan
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The only time, time is wasted; is when it isn't wasted at all. - Jonathan Bingham
Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted. - Wes Moore
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.
EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time in gratification from the senses. - Ambrose Bierce
Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. - Mickey Rooney
I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. Now, if I only knew which half. - John Wanamaker
You are given a life, a death. Understand both while living, and before dying. Or you'd have wasted a life, a death. - Fakeer Ishavardas
A day without laughter is a day wasted. - Nicolas Chamfort
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer however happy, however tragic is ever wasted. - P.D. James
A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it. - Eric Schmidt
An unhappy life is a wasted life. - Debasish Mridha
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace. - Max Lucado
Ninja's understand that training time is never wasted time. - Anna M. Aquino
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. - Muhammad Ali
Thank God I've wasted my youth already. I don't want to do that again. - Greg Deane
What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud. - Louis Sachar
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Life is like a pencil, it can either be wasted; or, be used to create something beautiful. - Juan F. Cisneros Cisneros
Every talent you have is not wasted. It is there because of a reason and God will open that door when the right time comes along to use it. - Shannon L. Alder
The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.
It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze.The day on which you arewithout passionate loveis the most wasted day of your life. - Omar Khayyám
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop
A great chunk of our lives is wasted on thoughts that bring nothing. We all think about something but, in the end, we only close the day thinking a lot and doing nothing but little. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Love is all wasted, till it is not tested. Love is all faded, if it is only tested. - Heenashree Khandelwal
Suffering is never wasted. Most often those who suffer the most will learn the most. - Debasish Mridha
Get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. - Mickey Rooney
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted. - Aesop
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. - William Shakespeare
Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day. - Joel Spolsky
When you think about the wasted time, you waste your time again. - Steven Shaw
If only I could stand on a street corner with my hat in my hand, and get people to throw their wasted time into it! - Bernard Berenson
All those windows, and not a cat in them. All that light to bask in, wasted. - Lissa Warren The Good Luck Cat
What is a life?" Scapegrace continued. "Is life merely living? Is it having a heartbeat? Or is life the effect you have on others? Is it the effect you have on the world around you? If so, what have I done with mine? How have I wasted it? - Derek Landy
When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential. - Lionel Suggs
No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad. - Anthony Liccione
The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life - Aristotle
the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.. live wild dont be a normal person.. to become presence, means accepting the risk.. and be sure if u don't take risks u'll have a wasted soul.. - Marouane LAASSAFAR
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time appears to be most wasted when someone seeks truth in lies - Munia Khan
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
In God's economy, nothing is slag, nothing is wasted. Every relationship we build is a teacher, every experience we have is a coach. In every scar there is a lesson. In every memory there lives potential to make more. - Toni Sorenson
Worries are wasted energies.You can have a joyful life when you let go of your worries. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The Sun would have wasted its life but for the evolution of life on earth. The one who gives should be grateful to the one who receives. - R.N. Prasher
Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain. - Niccolò Machiavelli
You actually, waste time when you cry over wasted time. Time should be a guide that helps you focus. All you should worry about is ageing with unfinished business. - DaVyshka
Cheer up and dry your damp eyes,And tell me when it rains,And I'll blend up that rainbow above you & shoot it through your veins...'Cause your heart has a lack of color,And we should've known That we'd grow up sooner or later,'Cause we wasted all our free time alone. <3 - Owl City
Holding a grudge hurts the one holding it more than the one it's held against... All that wasted time and energy... Let it go." L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury - L.R.W. Lee
Time spent with a cat is never wasted. - Colette
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw
Those who waste bread will be condemned to as many years in purgatory as the number of crumbs wasted and will have to pick those crumbs up, one by one, with their eyelids. - Paula Pettini
Remember that wasted minute at the start of the day? Hard luck but you'll never find it again. - Cleveland W. Gibson
Nor deem the irrevocable PastAs wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at lastTo something nobler we attain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe? - David Self
Positive thinking without any thought is wasted ... - Stephen Richards
Since graduating from HMS my greatest satisfaction has unequivocally been my family. My main disappointment is that I have wasted too much time in personal pursuits and been less of an influence for good than I might have been. - Norris B. Finlayson
EVERY person and experience HAS contributed to who you have become today. NOTHING was wasted - Angie karan
Hate is a very strong, pure emotion to be wasted on people you don't care about. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Youth is wasted on the young. - George Bernard Shaw
Wasting time over wasted time is just more wasted time... - Animesh Singh
Sometimes things happen in our lives that wake us up to the truth, about how short life is. It’s then we wonder why we spent so much wasted time looking too far into the future. - Ron Baratono
Now we realize that time is our most valuable resource, and every minute we spend in one of these meetings just sitting there is time wasted. - Blake Ross
How to "change the world" in two words: S.T.A.R.T. N.O.W.1. START - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.2. NOW - No Opportunity Wasted - Richie Norton
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. - Nicolas Chamfort
Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives - Charlotte Gray
But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable. - Penelope Fitzgerald
If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live. - Shannon L. Alder
Why waste time for a love partner, while you've already wasted a lot of time for your self. - D.DelaTorre
POWER WITHOUT WISDOM IS WASTED ENERGY - KAMILAH WILLACY
The only time, time is wasted; is when it isn't wasted. - Jonathan Bingham
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great deal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. - José P. Rizal
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell
Only 8% of our worry will come to pass. 92% of our worry is wasted. DON'T PANIC - Mark Gorman
If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul. - Drew Barrymore
Never waste time for someone who doesn’t bother to spend time with you, but with someone who will say, time is wasted if I’m not with you. - M. Ganesh Sai
I would bear it for her if I could.People say that and hardly mean it. I, however, do mean it. But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable. - Penelope Fitzgerald
Not even a book on prosperity can prosper you, when what is expected of you is given, your time won't be wasted. - Michael Bassey Johnson
precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else - leave us alone already. - A Gentlemen
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. - Mason Cooley
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. - Mark Twain
I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity. - Ellen DeGeneres
What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things. - Doug Cooper
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. - John Wanamaker
You must live everyday of your life or you have wasted that many days of your life ... - Adel Abouhana
Fleeing from death is the shortest path to a wasted life.
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted. - John Lennon
You live longer once you realise that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. - Ruth E. Renki
Creativity is the residue of time wasted. - Albert Einstein
People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie. - Amit Kalantri
I used to never get in a swimsuit. I used to feel so embarrassed about my skin and scars. I'm over that, it wasted too much of my time and I missed out on too much. - Stephanie Nielson
The moment you realize your eyes hurt not because of rubbing them, but because of the tears you wasted, on him. - Athena Kamalei
Time is often wasted by those who don't understand that time is worth more than money because when lost, money can be regained but time cannot. - Gugu Mona
Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted. - Danny Gregory
A great difference between the womb and the tomb is the w and the t! We waist great and precious time as we journey from the womb to the tomb; in the end we shall remember the w and the t! Hmm! The wasted time! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If I were you I'd put that away. See you're just wasted and thinking about the past again, darling you'll be okay. - Pierce the Veil
Ninja mom's understand that training time is never wasted time. - Anna M. Aquino
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