110+ Randy Pausch Quotes On Dreams, Inspirational And Motivational

Randy Pausch was an American professor, author, and public speaker. He was best known for his "Last Lecture" at Carnegie Mellon University, in which he discussed his battle with pancreatic cancer and his life lessons. Pausch died in 2008, but his legacy lives on through his book, The Last Lecture, and the many videos of his lecture that are available online. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Randy Pausch on dreams, inspirational, motivational.

Top 10 Randy Pausch Quotes

1. The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.
2. When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.
3. It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.
4. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
5. Don’t complain; just work harder.
6. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!
7. One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.
8. Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
9. If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'
10. Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Randy Pausch Short Quotes

• It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.
• When we're connected to others, we become better people.
• Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
• A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.
• We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.
• You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore.
• We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.
• Time is the only commodity that matters.
• Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.
• Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

Randy Pausch Quotes About Dreams

Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you. — Randy Pausch

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. — Randy Pausch

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

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. — Randy Pausch

Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge. — Randy Pausch

Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others. — Randy Pausch

Sometimes all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true. — Randy Pausch

Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear. — Randy Pausch

You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest. — Randy Pausch

Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams. — Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch Quotes About Inspirational

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. — Randy Pausch

Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out. — Randy Pausch

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you. — Randy Pausch

Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap. — Randy Pausch

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. — Randy Pausch

You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper. — Randy Pausch

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. — Randy Pausch

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. — Randy Pausch

Go out and do for others what somebody did for you. — Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch Quotes About Play

Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day because there's no other way to play it. — Randy Pausch

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you. — Randy Pausch

I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding. — Randy Pausch

You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand. — Randy Pausch

Never make a decesion until you have to". He'd also warn me that even if I was in a position of strenght, whether at work or in a relationship, I had to play fair. "Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over. — Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch Quotes About Change

We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond. — Randy Pausch

Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with other people, how to carefully assess a client's real - as opposed to perceived - needs, and things like that. — Randy Pausch

You can always change you plan, but only if you have one. — Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch Famous Quotes And Sayings

Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.' — Randy Pausch

Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better? — Randy Pausch

Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you. — Randy Pausch

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls. — Randy Pausch

Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up. — Randy Pausch

A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard. — Randy Pausch

Be willing to apologize. Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I'm sorry that I hurt you. 3) How do I make it better? It's the third part that people tend to forget. Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself. — Randy Pausch

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you. — Randy Pausch

educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can’t accurately do that, how can we tell if we’re getting better or worse? — Randy Pausch

You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better. — Randy Pausch

Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out. — Randy Pausch

Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting. — Randy Pausch

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. — Randy Pausch

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up. — Randy Pausch

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

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

If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds. — Randy Pausch

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. — Randy Pausch

The questions are always more important than the answers. — Randy Pausch

Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome. — Randy Pausch

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work. — Randy Pausch

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. — Randy Pausch

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

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? — Randy Pausch

There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses. — Randy Pausch

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think. — Randy Pausch

People are more important than things. — Randy Pausch

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

Be good at something. It makes you valuable. — Randy Pausch

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you. — Randy Pausch

Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes. — Randy Pausch

My colleague told me: "It took a long time, but I finally figured it out. When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do. — Randy Pausch

There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result. — Randy Pausch

But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle. — Randy Pausch

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity. — Randy Pausch

Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing. — Randy Pausch

I also think my dad would be reminding me that kids — more than anything else — need to know their parents love them. Their parents don't have to be alive for that to happen. — Randy Pausch

Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun. — Randy Pausch

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. — Randy Pausch

Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over. — Randy Pausch

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources. — Randy Pausch

What he said was: "You obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do a disservice by putting it anywhere." And boy was that good advice. Because what he said was, you obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do them a disservice by putting it anywhere. — Randy Pausch

An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar. — Randy Pausch

I'm dying, and I'm having fun. — Randy Pausch

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it. — Randy Pausch

I'm a professor - there should be some lessons learned - and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun. — Randy Pausch

Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful! — Randy Pausch

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that — Randy Pausch

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

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK. — Randy Pausch

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort. — Randy Pausch

Often think of the worst-case scenario, the "Eaten By Wolves" factor. — Randy Pausch

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective. — Randy Pausch

Well, you can’t have just some of me, Jai,” I told her. “You appreciate the part of me that didn’t get angry because two ‘things’ we own got hurt. But the flip side of that is my belief that you don’t repair things if they still do what they’re supposed to do. The cars still work. Let’s just drive ’em. — Randy Pausch

And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from pursuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, than I did from many of the ones I did accomplish. — Randy Pausch

it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities — Randy Pausch

It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai — Randy Pausch

Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it — Randy Pausch

When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you. — Randy Pausch

To-Do lists help us break life into small steps. — Randy Pausch

If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams. — Randy Pausch

Never make a decision until you have to. — Randy Pausch

The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror. — Randy Pausch

To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch. — Randy Pausch

We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish. — Randy Pausch

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t — Randy Pausch

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre. — Randy Pausch

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness. — Randy Pausch

If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered). — Randy Pausch

It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people. — Randy Pausch

Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others. — Randy Pausch

Life Lessons by Randy Pausch

1. Randy Pausch's work teaches us to make the most of our time and to appreciate the little things in life.
2. His words remind us to be kind to others and to never give up, even when faced with insurmountable odds.
3. He also encourages us to take risks and to strive to achieve our dreams, no matter how big or small.