Wasted Time Quotes

“We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are old enough to start making decisions for yourself, a lot of things in your life are already in place. It’s important, therefore, that you focus on the future, the only thing that you can change.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“Today is a new day and it brings with it a new set of opportunities for me to act on.
I am attentive to the opportunities and I seize them as they arise.
I have full confidence in myself and my abilities.
I can do all things that I commit myself to.
No obstacle is too big or too difficult for me to handle because what lies inside me is greater than what lies ahead of me.
I am committed to improving myself and I am getting better daily.
I am not held back by regret or mistakes from the past.
I am moving forward daily.
Absolutely nothing is impossible for me.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“But if you forgive someone for something they did to you, it doesn’t mean you agree with what they did or believe it was right. Forgiving that person means you have chosen not to dwell on the matter anymore; you have moved on with your life.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time”
― Mason Cooley

“The only value of wasted time is knowledge.”
― Monica Drake, Clown Girl

“Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything...”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Absolute Midnight

“Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“And now, for something completely the same:

Wasted time and wasted breath,
's what I'll make, until my death.
Helping people 'd be as good,
but I wouldn't, if I could.

For the few that help deserve,
have no need, or not the nerve,
help from strangers to accept,
plus from mine a few have wept.

Wept from joy, or from despair,
or just from my vengeful stare.
Ways I have, to look at stupid,
make them see I am not Cupid.

Make them see they are in error,
for of truth I am a bearer.
Most decide I'm just a bear,
mauling at them, - like I care.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“I don't believe in worrying. It's a waste of energy.”
― Malinda Lo, Huntress

“Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928)”
― Clare Winger Harris, The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women

“We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.”
― Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

“In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“If he left, he’d be taking two centuries of wasted effort with him. Who would be able to put out the fire of her anger once it was an inferno? No one but him.”
― K.M. Mayville, Vertus State

“How to kill time is a question for those who waste it.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“... the great waste of years between then and now. A long time gone. And it was pointless...”
― Charles Frazier

“Durning the years when we were carelessly dismissing what we later came to see as the most important things in life, we kept crying out woefully that we were looking for meaning. All that time we were starved for meaning, we were lacking it for no other reason than we weren't ascribing meaning to the situations right in front of us! meaning isn't what a situation gives us; its what we give to a situation.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“I would soon be twenty-four and in the last few years my life had stood still, I hadn't developed in any direction, hadn't done anything new, I had only continued the pattern that had formed during the first few months in Bergen. When I looked around me now, I saw no openings anywhere, just more of the same everywhere. National service came heaven sent. It gave me sixteen months to defer decisions. Everything would be decided for me for more than a year, I wouldn't have any responsibility for my life, at least not that part to do with studies, work and career.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 5

“One way time is wasted is to be in a meeting with no agenda, when everybody is the chairperson or everybody has a flow and the meeting flows in all the directions.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Artists like poets must not waste their words for wrong people.”
― Sonal Takalkar

“It doesn’t matter who loves your life, if you don’t love your own life then it’s all a waste.”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim

“Wealth without alignment with the Purpose of God is a waste.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Time spent in rest is an investment in your well-being. Embrace it, cherish it, and let it restore your vitality. A moment of rest is not a waste of time; it is an essential part of the journey towards productivity, efficiency and success.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“We often throw away what we still have so as not to regret what we have already lost.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“It's curious, now that I think on it, that you've humored me as long as you have, considering you knocked a man out in midst of a dinner party, and yet you've wasted time with me instead of throwing me over your shoulder and carted me off to the billards room.”
― Jen Turano, To Spark a Match

“Living in a portion of Tesland that was prone to earthquakes, there was mass fear surrounding the possibility of being crushed by the upper floor of a house. Supposedly, one couldn't waste time – or be wasted by time – if clocks weren't present on the base story of a home.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Poor Vinnie's Valor

“I rushed and rushed and
now, here I am,
standing on the edge of
nothing.

It doesn’t help:
“At least I got here quickly.”

It doesn’t work:
“I’m not dead yet.”
― Vironika Wilde, Love and Gaslight

“It's not the 3 bucks you spend on the game, it's the time you sunk into it.”
― Sam Hyde

“Before you know it, you will be 30, you will be 40, and you will have fucking nothing.”
― Sam Hyde