Top 200 Life Is Short Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.”

— David J. Schwartz

102. “I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

— Jimi Hendrix

103. “In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

104. “Nothing stays forever. Good as well as bad times go away. Be happy.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

105. “Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friends.”

— John Lennon

106. “Be nice to everyone, always smile, and appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.”

— Ed Sheeran

107. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

108. “You’ll have time to rest when you’re dead.”

— Robert De Niro

109. “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

110. “It’s now or never. I ain’t gonna live forever. I just wanna live while I’m alive. It’s my life.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

111. “Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!”

— Helen Keller

112. “Live today like there’s no tomorrow!”

— Jerry Spinelli

113. “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”

— Rumi

114. “You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.”

— Benjamin Mee

115. “No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.”

— Henry Rollins

116. “Just live every day like it’s your last day and be the best person that you can be.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

117. “Life is short. Don’t miss opportunities to spend time with the people that you love.”

— Joel Osteen

118. “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”

— Randy Pausch

119. “Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”

— Jojo Moyes

120. “Life’s too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can’t please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.”

— Joel Osteen

121. “Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”

— James Dean

122. “In the end only kindness matters.”

— Jewel

123. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.”

— Carol Burnett

124. “I’m gonna live like tomorrow doesn’t exist.”

— Sia Furler

125. “The way you live your days is the way you live your life.”

— Annie Dillard

126. “Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”

— Marcus Aurelius

127. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”

— Dolly Parton

128. “Life is short. You can’t afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don’t have time to live with things holding you back.”

— Joel Osteen

129. “We only have one life and one body to care of, and we better do it right. You never know what tomorrow may bring and so we better live this life the best we can and be grateful for everything we have.”

— Novak Djokovic

130. “Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.”

— Earl Nightingale

131. “Remember: Life is short, break the rules.”

— James Dean

132. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

— Audrey Hepburn

133. “Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

134. “Make your life spectacular, I know I did.”

— Robin Williams

135. “Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.”

— Robert Doisneau

136. “It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.”

— Randy Pausch

137. “Life is short. Be of use.”

— Robin S. Sharma

138. “If it ain’t fun don’t do it.”

— Jack Canfield

139. “Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?”

— Elvis Presley

140. “Spend your brief moment according to nature’s law, and serenely greet the journey’s end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life.”

— Marcus Aurelius

141. “Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.”

— Denis Waitley

142. “There are no rules. Just follow your heart.”

— Robin Williams

143. “Life is short, death is forever.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

144. “I choose to live, not just exist.”

— James Hetfield

145. “I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.”

— Kanye West

146. “Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.”

— Maya Angelou

147. “The most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”

— Randy Komisar

148. “Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.”

— Orhan Pamuk

149. “You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.”

— Frank Sinatra

150. “Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.”

— Richard Branson