Life Being Too Short Quotes

• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Graduation, Dream

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

  Dion Boucicault

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.

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• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  Mae West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

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• Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

  Al Lopez

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Life is too short for long-term grudges.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Life Is Too Short, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  "Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter VII: Our Virtues, Aphorism 227, 1886.

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• If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

  Larry McMurtry

  Life, Waiting, Motorcycle

  Larry McMurtry (1989). “Some Can Whistle: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster

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• Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

  Stendhal

  Life, Yawning, Waste

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• Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Life Being Short

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• Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.

  Drake

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Don't take life too seriously.

  RuPaul

  Life, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Life is too short not to experiment.

  Jamelia

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Life Being Short

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• Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Elbert Hubbard (1917). “In the Spotlight: Personal Experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American Stage”

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• Life is too short to be a boring company.

  Andrew Mason

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Life Being Short

  "Groupon's $20bn valuation is 'not rational', analysts warn" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com.

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• Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

  Peabo Bryson

  Life, Too Short, Harbors

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• Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Life Is Too Short, Optimistic

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• I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

  Srikumar Rao

  Believe, Life Is Too Short, Grateful

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• Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

  Eric Davis

  Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.

  Hugh Dillon

  Funny, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

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• Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Funny, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Sweet

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2023, Delphi Classics

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• I have always felt that the moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.

  Monica Baldwin

  Good Morning, Lying, Morning Inspirational

  Monica Baldwin (2016). “I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent”, p.17, Read Books Ltd

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• Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

  Amanda Crew

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Waiting

  "Amanda Crew Interview Charlie St. Cloud". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 29, 2010.

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