Top 100 Quotes About Short Life
#1. Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#2. If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.
Charles Caleb Colton
#4. I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.
Tina Weymouth
#5. ...because life is short and you too are thirsty.
Adrienne Rich
#6. Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,
it is exceedingly short.
Henry Ward Beecher
#7. Long term thinking and planing enhances short term decision making. Make sure you have a plan of your life in your hand, and that includes the financial plan and your mission.
Manoj Arora
#8. I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.
Stephanie Perkins
#9. Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
David Starr Jordan
#10. I could deal with hate and fear, but for the love of all that's right in the world, don't fake like me. Life was too short to waste energy faking anything.
Donna Augustine
#11. Cherish every relationship in your life. There are certain things in life that can't be fixed if broken!
Avijeet Das
#12. Life seemed too calm; people looked for unhappiness in art as one might look for a raw material in short supply.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#13. Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.
Paul Bocuse
#14. Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.
Alyson Noel
#15. For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
Djuna Barnes
#16. I've never been a believer in fate. I like to think I'm in control, that my life hasn't been plotted out ahead of time. Sometimes all it takes is one wild thought, one brave decision to change everything. This must be one of those times.
Kyle Richardson
#17. Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?
Gautama Buddha
#18. If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.
Jaggi Vasudev
#19. There is no poetry or song.
There is no short or long.
There is only you.
Debasish Mridha
#20. Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
Otto Weininger
#21. Life's too short to spend all the time in the gym. I just like to have a few beers and enjoy myself too.
Ian Woosnam
#22. Life was too short, and far too precious, to waste.
Bella Andre
#23. We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the past. I hope that everybody will do well in the long run.
Jay Park
#25. Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#26. Life was too short though to agonize over the little stuff; sometimes you had to do what was best for you and if your family loved you they would be happy regardless.
L.A. Fiore
#27. The probability that the Earth was created with such a perfect combination to sustain life seems almost impossible. So, in the grand scheme of the Universe, you might be one insignificant pin-prick, but with all things considered, you're also nothing short of a miracle
Becki Tedford
#28. Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.
John Oliver Killens
#29. Life is short but it is wide. this too shall pass.
Rebecca Wells
#30. I didn't ask anything - I hadn't the words. Instead I spoke the smallest one - the one I should have used more in my short and foolish life.
Sorry.
Mark Lawrence
#31. Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
Gina Greenlee
#33. Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
Aldous Huxley
#34. All the light was now coming from the East; and it looked breathtakingly new. In a very short time, everything was nationalized, from banks to factories, from pharmacies to little distilleries.
Teodor Flonta
#36. Find your way early, on the road of life. For the way is too long to be struggling, and far too short to be waiting.
Anthony Liccione
#37. Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?
Dean Kamen
#38. Life's too short so we should enjoy it without forget our limits.
Lilly Ghalichi
#39. Life is too short to be unhappy in business. If business were not a part of the joy of living, we might almost say that we have no right to live, because it is a pretty poor man who cannot get into the line for which he is fitted.
George L. Brown
#40. Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.
Carolyn Brown
#42. If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.
Jerry Doyle
#43. To separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of perverted and fusty minds! Where there is separation, there is excessive primitiveness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. Choose a summit; make a plan to reach there! If you think you can't make it, choose a new summit, make another plan. Or give up the summits, make new plans, find lower targets! In short, be 'flexible' in life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. You only live once, life is really short.. don't let anything minuscule like that keep you down. Keep your head up.
Mitch Lucker
#46. Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#47. Life is too short to worry, so do good things to be happy
AKA
#48. Better a long ignoble life of shallow pleasures than a short stab at heroism, ending with a short stab. And just because one man plays another doesn't always mean that it's not the right direction for both of them.
Mark Lawrence
#49. Being cold for a short period of time is not life-threatening. You can perform a task when you're cold. We proved that when the Vikings played outside.
Bud Grant
#50. Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance.
T. B. Joshua
#51. Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people's approval on how you live it.
Steve Maraboli
#52. What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?
Deborah Sampson
#54. My advice to graduates is to stay positive. Life is short, and you'll be dead soon.
Greg Giraldo
#56. Life is short but donation of life could have a long life.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.
Demi Lovato
#59. In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.
Radhanath Swami
#61. Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.
David J. Schwartz
#62. Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.
Charlie Trotter
#63. My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
Taylor Momsen
#64. Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.
Caroline Knapp
#65. In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.
Marcus Aurelius
#66. The future is too good to waste on lies. And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong.
Bowe Bergdahl
#68. I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.
Nicole Jordan
#69. You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.
Hillary Clinton
#70. Life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it.
Paulo Coelho
#71. I've been fortunate to be short my entire life. There's only one position I've ever had to play, and that's point guard. So I've always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.
Chris Paul
#72. Because I am a one-legged, black, short, woman I had to spend every day of my life pushing against what society told me I should be. I had to sell my value every day of my life. Confidence is what enables us to push back on reality. Once you get good at that, you can use it to live your joy.
Bonnie St. John
#73. If we focus our efforts on doing, we will always fall short of our real potential. We can do all the right things, but if we do not do them for the right reasons, they will never have the power to change our internal view of life.
Rand Olson
#75. Be together, in the moment of, enjoy each other, love each other, support each other, until the next time ... Life is too short.
Lee Bice-Matheson
#76. Life is too short not to say how you feel to the people you love.
Kristina McMorris
#77. The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism - an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.
Kathryn Schulz
#78. Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.
David Frum
#80. I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?
Brent Jones
#81. life is short. And when you find what makes your heart beat, your soul sing, you have to hang on to it.
Karina Halle
#82. Time is life. When we experience time as scarce, we experience life as short and poor.
Charles Eisenstein
#83. Remember, life is too short to be spent dancing with idiots.
Carew Papritz
#84. I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans
Lykke Li
#85. Life's too short to settle for second best
Elle Casey
#86. I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to ... ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.
Kate Adie
#87. I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.
Helen Clark
#88. Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly
Paulo Coelho
#89. Stars that become supernovae start off at least eight times heavier than our sun. They're so short-lived that, even if they have planets, there is unlikely to be time for life to get started. The surface is 40,000C and, as a result, the colouring will be extremely blue.
Martin Rees
#90. Did she look different? She felt different, as if she had traveled a thousand miles and a hundred lifetimes in a few short minutes.
Jennifer Beckstrand
#93. Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.
Charles Hugh Smith
#94. Let us swell with gratitude and allow it to overwhelm us. It isn't as cliche as we make it; life truly is short. Let's spend it all lavishly wallowing in gratitude.
Grace Gealey
#95. Nothing ever really ends. That's the horrible part of being in the short-story business - you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. 'Millicent at last understands.' Nobody ever understands.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#96. Life is so transient and ephemeral; we will not be here after a breath. So think better, think deeply, think with kindness, and write it with love so that it may live a little longer.
Debasish Mridha
#97. Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#98. [Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let's buy it what a bargain!
Anne Carson
#99. In the short walk of this life
We have had our share of joy.
Let us hope to meet again
In the youth of our next life
Tsangyang Gyatso
#100. I believe that when people view the end of their life as a short time left to live and no time to waste, they open up their hearts more profoundly, knowing they have less, not more, time to live.
Linda Noble Topf
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