Philip Zimbardo Quotes

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

Life is too short to waste on things that don't matter.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

It doesn't matter who we are, how rich we are, how poor we are, famous or not famous, we all have a short window of time here on the planet and what are we going to do with it?

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.

Living meaningfully is what brings joy.

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time limited as that commodity is in our days of probation. One must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

Live with a purpose, play with a purpose.

A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.

Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.

You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

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

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.

The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?

I guess what I'm passionate about is, I see so many things that I find that there's no real solution to, and you're only here for such a brief moment in time, even if you live to be a hundred years old. Yet, what happens within that time frame? So many things happen.

The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between...the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.

Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance.