Randy Pausch Quotes

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that.

It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived.

In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

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.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

It's my life. I only got one, and it's very short. You don't get long.

I know better than anyone else that my time is near. I've had a good life, and you don't stop and complain at this stage of the game. I've made some mistakes, and I'd like to stay around a little longer and overcome them, but there isn't time. I'll miss baseball. That I know.