29 Quotes About All Those Things That Just Aren’t Worth It

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Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.
Robert Tew

Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Rick Warren

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
Michael Altshuler

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel

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No amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.
Umar ibn Al-Khattab

One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.
Paulo Coelho

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.
Carl Sandburg

It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.
Seneca

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.
Lao Tzu

You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.
Ashley Ormon

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Marthe Troly-Curtin

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa

Time slips away like grains of sand never to return again.
Robin Sharma

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
Stephen R. Covey

Don't count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.
Mark Amend

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
Virginia Woolf

Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
William Carlos Williams

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Charles Buxton

Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.
Gene Wilder

Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.
Roy T. Bennett

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
Mason Cooley

Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
Regina Brett

Time is non-refundable; use it with intention.
Sylvester Kumbe