Top 54 Not A Day Wasted Quotes
#1. The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
Nicolas Chamfort
#2. I spent years being angry with God because He never gave me the husband I wanted. All those years gone, wasted! I should have enjoyed each day as it came and recognized that if I remained single it was because God knew singleness was best for me.
Jill Stengl
#3. I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.
Peg Bracken
#4. Hell is the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do...For me that conception of hell lies in two words: Too late!
Giancarlo Menotti
#5. Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.
Simone Schwarz-Bart
#6. It takes only about 10 to 12 minutes for you to plan out your day, but this small investment of time will save you up to two hours (100 to 120 minutes) in wasted time and diffused effort throughout the day. You
Brian Tracy
#7. I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.
Bob Monkhouse
#9. Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
Alice Hoffman
#10. I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you'll have at the end of your life is wasted time.
Nora Roberts
#11. Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the New Earth? What if one day we discover that God has wasted nothing in our life on Earth? What if we see that every agony was part of giving birth to an eternal joy?
Randy Alcorn
#12. chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.
Arnold Bennett
#15. A very beautiful day without love, kindness, and gratitude is a very wasted day.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.
Ellis Peters
#17. A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.
Abraham Lincoln
#18. Every hour you are not going after your passion, making your dreams a reality or defining your purpose is an hour you can't get back. Is what you're doing right now, this day, this moment getting you closer to where you want to be? If not, readjust your focus. It's your future. Go get it!
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#20. You know your getting older when you lay in bed til 10am and think to yourself god I just wasted half the day.
Bill Engvall
#21. Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don't have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.
Regina Brett
#22. 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 that not a single moment be wasted.
Wes Moore
#23. If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.
Douglas Coupland
#25. A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day.
B.B. King
#26. The day passed as it always did - in slow motion, with a thousand plaintive glances at the clock. But now it was even more unbearable, because every minute I wasted in school was another minute in which I failed to find her.
John Green
#27. Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#28. It's too bad if a heart lacks fire,
and is deprived of the light
of a heart ablaze.
The day on which you are
without passionate love
is the most wasted day of your life.
Omar Khayyam
#29. Declassified papers report that John Kennedy was taking eight different medications a day. He was so wasted, his Secret Service code name was Ted Kennedy.
Craig Kilborn
#30. I'm sort of planting Post-It notes all over my psyche. Do not skateboard wasted. Do not buy $10,000 rugs. Be careful what you say to journalists. You don't have to stay up until 7 A.M. - tomorrow is a new day.
Ryan Adams
#31. If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.
Ari Gold
#32. Each day that you persist in a situation where you are miserable is a day wasted on the path that would lead you to happiness.
Twinkle Khanna
#33. If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.
S.J Perelman
#34. This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!
Don Marquis
#35. When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.
Arturo Toscanini
#36. and a day spent working for money is wasted while a day spent writing poetry is wasted but more honest.
Tim Lane
#37. She only regretted the time wasted, what was left unsaid. Undone. That if she'd learned something from what had happened, it was that you needed to live life to the fullest. Every day. Balls to the wall. Afraid of nothing. Much less of possible pain to come. Giving yourself unconditionally.
Elle Aycart
#38. If I haven't thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted.
Walt Disney
#39. I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life
Ernest Hemingway,
#40. They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.
Philip Freneau
#41. Is it thy will that I should wax and wane,
Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey,
And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain
Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?
Oscar Wilde
#42. I hate to think of you stuck here all day every day, doing nothing with that brilliant brain of yours."
"It never was brilliant. Anyway, who keeps these books to see who's used themselves wisely and who's wasted?
Tessa Hadley
#43. I don't like when people say 'I can't believe I wasted the whole day reading.' Diving into another world to free your mind is hardly a waste.
Christopher Stocking
#44. Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.
Joel Spolsky
#45. If you have not made somebody's day happier, if you've not appreciated something good that has happened to you and if you have not felt thankful to be alive, then you have wasted that day of your life on earth!
Preeti Shenoy
#46. Everyday that I haven't learned something new is a day wasted
Michael Pang
#47. Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.
Mickey Rooney
#48. The chief beauty about time is 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 misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
Arnold Bennett
#49. Things happen every day. You can't spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you've wasted your life.
Tony Stewart
#50. A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted ...
John Lennon
#51. Remember that wasted minute at the start of the day? Hard luck but you'll never find it again.
Cleveland W. Gibson
#52. A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.
Gilbert Highet
#53. Not a day on your calendar should ever be empty. It's bad luck. Twenty-four hours of wasted opportunity.
John Corey Whaley
#54. Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.
P. J. O'Rourke
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