Jim Valvano Quotes

This life is temporary, this body is temporary, but while I'm here I want to get as much out of it as I can

I don't know what I'm going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

I've learnt that you never know what is around the corner, so it's best to enjoy the ride.

Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

'World On Fire' isn't necessarily a profound statement about where we are as a planet. It's about living life to the fullest... carpe diem.

I've got to take advantage of every day.

You never know how times will change in where you are in your life.

The future is uncertain, and therefore I can't predict it.

I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

What we put into every moment is all we have. You can drug yourself to death or you can smoke yourself to death or eat yourself to death, or you can do everything right and be healthy and then get hit by a car. Life is so great, such a neat thing, and yet all during it we have to face death, which can make you nuts and depressed.

When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

As I don't know about tomorrow, I never save the best for later.

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.

Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings.... if I've learned one thing from all that'shappened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.

Each moment is magical, precious and complete and will never exist again. We forget that now is the moment we are in, that the next one isn't guaranteed. And if we are blessed with another moment, any joy, creativity or wisdom it brings will ensue from the way we live in the present one.

celebrate while you can

Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.