Meaningful Quotes. Thoughtful Insights. Helpful Tools.
Advanced Search Options

Quotes about Wasting

Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.
- John Wooden
For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
- Psalm 31:10
Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.
- Ezekiel 24:23
When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I'm wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be.
- Paulo Coelho
it came to me with great force that I was wasting my life, that I was wasting it by living from day to day in a state of waiting, that I had in effect given myself up as a prisoner to this war.
- JM Coetzee
Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being
- Bruce Lee
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
- JRR Tolkien
It's not for you shows the ability to respect someone enough that you're not going to waste their time. It's the freedom to ignore the critics who don't get the joke. ===
- Seth Godin
Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
- George Bernard Shaw
If your activities don't match your priorities, you are wasting your life.
- Rick Warren
You may not realize it, but you are spending emotional energy that you need for your dreams, for your goals, for your children. You won't become all you were created to be if you are wasting emotional energy on things that don't matter. That unforgiveness is an impurity.
- Joel Osteen