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You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
Sep 10, 2025
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
Focus. Focus. Focus...on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life's short. You only get one shot at great.
Life is short, the art long.
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?
A lot of people are not used to having death in their lives or anything like that and I think that's not incredibly natural either. So it definitely can take its toll. At the same time I think it's important to face your own mortality, which I do most every day by doing the show, to realize that your life is short and to take the opportunities that you need to take and be fearless.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.
life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?
Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.
Life is short...eat desert first!
Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.
The journey has to feel the way you want the destination to feel.
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching
Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road.
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.
Because life is short. I feel we’re made of a hunger, a desire for life – if that can be described as a material. As I get older, I’m trying to open that channel more. If you don’t, if you close off desire and get complacent, life loses its freshness and sweetness, and that’s what I crave. That’s my bliss.
Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires.
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Life is short. I'm years old. I've got years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'
Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Life is short and art is long.
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
The art is long, life is short
Time is old. Life is short. Only this moment is guaranteed to you. Fight hard to do the things you dream of. You may not have another chance.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
I still find each day too short.
May you live all the days of your life.