Alfred A. Montapert Quotes

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

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

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

Life is short, and every moment is precious.

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.

If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.

We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.

Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

I'm turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don't have an infinite number of years left and if there's anything you want to say or represent, it's time to try it.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living

You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.

Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.

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

In truth, how much time do any of us really have?

Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die.

We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.