Top 72 Quotes About Wasting Your Life
#1. I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.
Srikumar Rao
#2. As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.
Chuck Palahniuk
#3. If you have an impossible dream, a dream that cannot be fulfilled, the friendly thing for me to do is to put a stop to you wasting your life at it.
Danny Bonaduce
#4. The world offers you millions of things to get into, and if you're not falling passionately and maniacally in love with at least one of them, then to me, you're wasting your life.
Jason Ellis
#5. If we can die at any minute," I said, "why are you wasting your life dreading it? Why don't you just live while you have the chance?
Rose Christo
#6. The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.
Tom Peters
#7. I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
D.H. Lawrence
#8. If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#9. If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
James Broughton
#10. You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.
Chuck Palahniuk
#11. If your activities don't match your priorities, you are wasting your life.
Rick Warren
#12. Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
Jackie Robinson
#13. Why are you more concerned with where you're going than where you are? Why are you more concerned with what you're going to do than what you're doing? Why aren't you paying attention to how you live your life right this very moment? Why are you wasting this moment? Why are you wasting your life?
Colin Beavan
#14. Yes, when you are passionate about something, it shows. There is no point doing something that does not make you feel happy just to earn money. If you hate what you are doing, you are then just wasting your life,
Preeti Shenoy
#15. And the fuck is yours too, WTF. That question does not apply 'to everything every day.' If it does, you're wasting your life. If it does, you're a lazy coward and you are not a lazy coward.
Ask better questions, sweet pea. The fuck is your life. Answer it.
Cheryl Strayed
#16. You are divine, you are perfect, but as an artist, you create your own story and you have the illusion that the story is real. You live your life by justifying that story. And by justifying the story, you are wasting your life.
Miguel Ruiz
#17. The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.
Chuck Palahniuk
#18. Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
Ed Koch
#19. If I had learned anything about life and love, it was that they were tenuous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential - but not at the cost of wasting your life.
Richelle Mead
#20. When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn't become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.
Shaun Hick
#21. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand your gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you.. to make each day count.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#22. Be yourself, and live your life. Time wasted is never retrieved. Stop wasting time and use it profitably ... !
Reason Nkosinathi Makhubela
#23. You shouldn't be wasting your time worrying about what's going to happen after you die. It's pointless. Think about what's happening now. In your life. That's what's important. So change the subject, will you?
Clare Furniss
#24. Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don't waste this breath, if your heart isn't crazy, since "the rest of your life" won't last forever.
Omar Khayyam
#25. If you lead a sloppy life, if you indulge in your emotions, if you're always upset, freaked out, stressful, and not happy, you are wasting power and your power level will get very low.
Frederick Lenz
#26. I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing
everything just right? Taking no chances means
wasting your dreams.
Ellen Hopkins
#27. Whether you need to remember the past or not, It changes nothing but gives the best choice for the future that makes You always to remember your past.
Auliq Ice
#28. If you go to anybody and ask them, what is your dream life? They would say I want to sit by the TV all day. I want to play with my friends all day and they think that is the best way to spend their lives. They do not know that what they have just listed is not living life but wasting life.
Sunday Adelaja
#29. 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
#30. As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something significant. Because what's the alternative? Spend your life wasting your time.
Ron Perlman
#31. When you do what someone else wants you to do, you are wasting your time. Don't get tricked by other people's thinking. The life is yours and so are goals. Believe in your own intuitions, speak your own voice, and follow what your heart says. The rest is secondary.
Ashish Patel
#32. Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes. The guideline for all experience is how you feel afterwards.
Frederick Lenz
#33. 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
#34. You don't just sit in the car and let some guy drive you through life, wasting your time.
Steve Harvey
#35. 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
#36. Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.
Turcois Ominek
#37. If you shut yourself down, you're wasting two days of your life that someone is trying to make exciting and productive and fun for you.
Graeme Simsion
#38. If you do not have a universal high objective, you are not only wasting your precious time but also the time of humanity! Try to get a cosmic high elevation goal!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.
C. K. Williams
#40. Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness ... the door is open and unlocked ... just walk through it.
Steve Maraboli
#41. You don't want to wake up and realize you could have been happy, that the risks would have been worth it, but you dwindled away your chances.
Sarah Noffke
#42. The first step to building resilience is to take responsibility for who you are and for your life. If you're not willing to do that, stop wasting your time reading this letter. The essence of responsibility is the acceptance of the consequences - good and bad - of your actions.
Eric Greitens
#43. 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
#44. Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.
Robert Doisneau
#45. I hope you're enjoying it, though, duck, and not wasting all your time and energy in a thankless job. You've got to make the most of life and not let these little opportunities pass you by. Before you know it you'll be old and wrinkly like me and wishing you'd done more. Just make sure you're happy.
Giovanna Fletcher
#46. Stop wasting your time with people who don't value your help or who you are. They take with one hand & disrespect you with the other. Move on with your life.
Timothy Pina
#47. There is a fine line between social networking and wasting your fucking life.
Andy Borowitz
#49. She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.
David Nicholls
#50. We struggle with a seditious inner voice that says, "You're wasting time. Get up and do something with your life.
Pamela D. Blair
#51. A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You're wasting your time, and it's not worth it. You need to find something that is. So, maybe your life isn't boring, but it has to be unfulfilling.
J.M. Darhower
#52. Until you find where the goal post is, you shall only exert all your precious energy and ability shooting in the direction of goal kick without scoring any goal
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#53. Reality is never what you imagined it would be. Sometimes it's better. Sometimes it's worse. And sometimes it's just different. It's not worth wasting time and energy trying to predict how things are going to turn out. Just go with the flow and keep your eyes and ears peeled.
Abby Rosmarin
#54. Moving on will show you a lot about who you are, what you truly want, & what you have no desire to waste your time on.
April Mae Monterrosa
#55. Live your life, not wasting it on minor things of life, but rather investing it in the best possible ways
Sunday Adelaja
#56. You're wasting your time, she wanted to tell them. I don't care about your cars or your properties or your bags of gold. What have you done with your life? What are you going to do with it? That's all that matters.
Sharon Shinn
#57. Wasting and losing time is equivalent to wasting and losing your life
Sunday Adelaja
#58. 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 W. Watts
#59. I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.
Banksy
#60. When you spend time worrying, you're simply using your imagination to create things you don't want.
Shannon L. Alder
#61. A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.
Christy Hall
#62. Stop wasting so much energy hating your body; it makes you weaker. Everything good in your life begins from the moment you begin accepting, understanding, respecting, and loving your true self.
Harry Papas
#63. A thing as important in your life as what could kill you had ought to have a name but no sense wasting a good one on it. Then
Ninie Hammon
#64. If you feel like you're at 50 percent with someone and that's as far as you'll get, you're wasting precious time. You should always be with someone who enriches your life and inspires you to be the best you can be.
Jenna Ushkowitz
#65. For every minute you are wasting, you are losing 60 seconds of your life.
Debasish Mridha
#66. All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.
David Walliams
#67. There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life. If you're holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you're wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn't receive.
Oprah Winfrey
#68. Any empathic person who knows how valuable time is will think twice before wasting another person's time, because losing time is losing a part of your life.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#69. When i dated someone, my goal is to marry her, i date to get married one day, i don't date a girl just to have sex and leave her, why wasting your time if the goal is not to get married?
Werley Nortreus
#70. Go ahead and eat your bread, a time will come when it shall get to you breath. Go ahead and leave your pen, exams will come when you shall remember the pen!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#71. Go ahead with your life, your plans ... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.
Richard L. Evans
#72. Think goal setting is too laborious and time wasting? Try the goalless life and your regret will be unpardonably regrettable
John Kennedy Akotia