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Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.
Sep 10, 2025
Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.
A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted.
I was tired of doing collections, tired of doing runway shows... there was just so much wasted time and energy doing all the runway product and all the filler product. We also decided not to do wholesale, which gives me a lot of freedom; I can basically do what I want and I don't need to fit into any department in a store.
While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.
Wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted.
Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.
Wasted time means wasted lives.
Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.
Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.
Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted A vision without action is merely a dream Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence
I never took a lesson until I was 20, and I'm glad I had those years living the life of a normal person. I don't consider that time wasted.
He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.
When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.
Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.
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.
When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.
Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.
We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams.
We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams. This might mean emptying our life of clutter such as wasted time, energy, resources, or draining relationships. These things can jeopardize our dreams by distracting us at a time when we should be more focused than ever.
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.
Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.
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.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.