Life is too short to waste time on things that don’t matter.

Thou man of scruffy looks, thou who heard’st nerfs, Thou fool-born wimpled roughhewn waste waste of flesh!

Back to your ships and your sea – that’s my advice to you, Martin Eden. What do you want in these sick and rotten cities of men? You are cutting your throat every day you waste in them trying to prostitute beauty to the needs of magazinedom.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.

I am not someone who likes to be in the dressing room and waste time; I like to be on the field all the time and be counted. That is how I am.

There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary

Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them

There is only a sparse handful of exceedingly rich countries that could begin to afford to maintain the bulimically wasteful expense of an American democracy

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless

The future is not even here yet. Plan for it, but do not waste your time worrying about it.

If you give him another chance, you are willing to deceive yourself again.

There is but one church in the world who are at the present time standing in the breach and making up the hedge, building up the old waste places.

I never waste time looking back.

Don’t waste talent. No matter what you do, don’t waste talent.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.

There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.

I think it’s rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it’s just not what I want to do.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it’s only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity

Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.

To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever

No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that’s fragile, that’s only one, it’s all we have. We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.

Don’t waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It’s not about the other guy. It’s about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you’ve got, all the time, for yourself.

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.

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.

Life’s too precious to waste it on negativity.

Don’t waste your time, it doesn’t make you rich.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special

Haste makes waste.