Short Lived Quotes

• Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

  Joseph Addison

  Passion, Admiration And Respect, Decay

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1778). “The Spectator”, p.26

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  Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Graduation, Dream

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• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

  Positive, Death, Spiritual

  "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

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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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• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Strength

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

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• Begin doing what you want to do now.

  Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

  Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Procrastination

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

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

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• Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Motivation, Inspiration, Differences

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• One reason there are so many short-lived management fads is that their prescriptions were derived and advocated in precisely this way. So managers read about a fad and try it, find that it doesn't work, abandon the effort, and move on to the next thing. In reality, it is usually the case that the faddish prescription was indeed sound advice in certain circumstances, but actually was poor advice in other circumstances.

  Clayton Christensen

  Moving, Reality, Effort

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.

  Jose Saramago

  Happiness, Forever, Failing

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• Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.

  Jose Saramago

  Perfect, Sublime, Needs

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• In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

  Frank Herbert

  Self, Law, Names

  "God Emperor of Dune" by Frank Herbert, "The Stolen Journals", 1981.

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• I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we've been evolving on this planet.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Years, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Pain, no matter how prolonged it seems to be, is just a short-lived thing that one day, in one way or another, we will overcome.

  Rosemary Altea

  Pain, One Day, Overcoming

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• Lasting and strong relations cannot be built on short-lived interests. A credible partnership is inconceivable without shared values and commitment to the same ideas.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Strong, Commitment, Ideas

  State dinner in honor of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and Mrs. Rita Sargsyan, www.president.am. January 18, 2011.

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• Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

  Winfield Scott

  Peace, Achievement, Compromise

  "The Iron Man of India". Book by S. Jaysbee, p. 57, 1951.

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• Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.

  Marcus Aurelius

  World, Earth, Agree

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.87, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.

  Eugene J. Martin

  Art, Spring, Reality

  "In Memoriam - Eugene James Martin". "Direct Art Magazine", Vol. 13, p. 87, Fall-Winter 2006.

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• Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Men, Law

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

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• At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change - that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.

  Iggy Azalea

  Careers, Long, People

  "Iggy Azalea Hopes She'll Still Be 'Gyrating in a Leotard at 35'". Interview with Sarah Ball, www.gq.com. January 19, 2015.

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• Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Love, Good Health

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• My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

  Joseph Barbera

  Should Have, Years, Impulsive

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

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• I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

  Alan Bradley

  Long, Would Be, Lasting

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• Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Successful

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