#squander

We are in a good position and should not squander the opportunity to o the right thing. ↗

— Dennis Moore

#opportunity #position #right #right thing #should

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander. ↗

— Sebastian Coe

#country #ever #games #had #must

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community. ↗

— Joe Biden

#again #american #american spirit #attack #blood

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#committed #cost #delivers #each #expended

It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— William Cowper

#comes #everything #existence #happiness #life

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#inherited #our #pass #responsibility #squander

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#fancy #half #in the past #legitimacy #past

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#education #forth #here #i #important

When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever. ↗

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#forever #irreplaceable #killed #lives #moment