John Muir Quotes

I feel like I don't have a lot of time left.

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?

So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.

What would your life be like if you found out you had 3 weeks left? And you know that you had not begun to live? And you had all these dreams and all these possibilities. And all these things you wanted to do and things you wanted to say and now time's up?

You now have the least amount of time you've ever had, to do everything you've ever wanted to do. Enjoy your life. You only get one

Art is too long, and life is too short.

We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.

Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.

Time is the least thing we have of.

Leaders understand that the real fight is the fight against time. There's so much to achieve in such less time.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

But I don't want to die! I have so much to do!

I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.

I feel the ticking clock. And at times, I've said if I don't dance, I'd rather die.