Garth Brooks Quotes

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

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

It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps even in a street accident, before I had ever glimpsed the meaning of life. My moods of happiness and self-confidence convinced me that I had a "destiny" to become a famous writer, and to be remembered as one of the most important thinkers of the century.

Everyone has to call 'time' at some stage.

Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find ourselves somewhere inside the square and in the process of walking outside of it. Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless? Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?

We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

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

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.

It matters not how long we live but how.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it! Perhaps she should have written some of it down...but really what would have been the point in that? Everything passed, she would too. This perspective offered her an unexpected clarity she nearly enjoyed, but even with this new clarity the world offered no more explanation for itself than it ever had.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

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.

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

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?