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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• 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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• Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

  Shirley Conran

  Life, Mushrooms, Stuff

  Superwoman epigraph (1975)

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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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• 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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• Life is short, break the rules.

  Mark Twain

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, No Regrets

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• I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Dog, Life Is Too Short, Bad Relationship

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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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• If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it.

  Harvey Mackay

  Life Is Too Short, Chance, Changing Your Life

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• Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

  B. Alan Wallace (2001). “Buddhism with an Attitude: The Tibetan Seven-point Mind-training”, Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated

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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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• 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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• 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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• As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

  Zachary Scott

  Inspiring, Travel, Regret

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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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• The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

  Michael Curtiz

  Regret, Short Life, Life Is Too Short

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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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• 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 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 live on low-fat everything.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

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

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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 spend your time avoiding failure.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Life Is Too Short, Surround Yourself With Good People, Surround Yourself With Positive People

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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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• Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.

  Harvey Mackay

  Life Is Too Short, Said Life, Would Be

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