Stuart Scott Quotes

My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.

I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

Life should be great rather than long.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.

Some of you, unfortunately, will never marry in this life. That turns out to be the case sometimes. If that happens, do not spend your life grieving over it. The world still needs your talents. It needs your contribution.

I made a vow to myself while I was a hostage that if I were lucky enough to live and to get out of Somalia, I would do something meaningful with my life - and specifically something that would be meaningful in the country where I'd lost my freedom.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existence, and the other is to get out there and find purpose for yourself.

I want to live. I didn't have time to die.

If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile?

It's not age that makes a life. It's what you do with it.

I intend to live life, not just exist.

Life is earnest - and always has been.