Short Life Quotes - Page 9

• Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

  Dogen

  Discipline, Dew, Today

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• He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God.

  Jim Elliot

  Godly, Fire, Flames

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• Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.

  Eric Greitens

  Believe, Life Is Short, Today

  Eric Greitens (2011). “The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Believe, Ocean, Ignorance

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• The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

  Nick Tosches

  Life Is Short, Friends Come And Go, Ghost

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• I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

  Alexander the Great

  Long, Obscurity, Glory

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• Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Life, Truth, Secret

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• Life is a series of collisions with the future.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Life, Live Your Life

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• The trouble is you think you have time.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Time

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• It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

  John Phillips

  Life, Horse, Frustration

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Dark

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

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• I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

  Kate Adie

  Life, Heart, Literature

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The only things that interested me were sports, girls, adventures, celebrities - in short, life.

  Porfirio Rubirosa

  Girl, Sports, Adventure

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• Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.

  Douglas McCulloh

  Photography, Years, Illusion

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• Do one thing every day that scares you.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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• Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 6, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

  Ann Landers

  Positive, Witty, Truth

  Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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  Action is the foundational key to all success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

  Randy Pausch

  Life, Change, Positive

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2010). “The Last Lecture: Lessons in Living”, Hodder Paperbacks

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

  Sivananda

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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