Last Lecture Quotes

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore.

I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.

People are more important than things.

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.