Quotes by Mitch Albom

About Mitch Albom:

Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom is an American best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster, and musician. His books have sold over 35 million copies worldwide. Having achieved national recognition for sports writing in the earlier part of his career, he is perhaps best known for the inspirational stories and themes that weave through his books, plays and films.
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Don't fall asleep in classes. It's such a lucky thing you have, to be taught and to be learning and not have to be working in a shop somewhere.

Mitch Albom

The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.

Mitch Albom

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

Mitch Albom

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Mitch Albom

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

Mitch Albom

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and...

Mitch Albom

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

Mitch Albom

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

Mitch Albom

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Mitch Albom

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

Mitch Albom

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'

Mitch Albom

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

Mitch Albom

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

Mitch Albom

Love each other or die.

Mitch Albom

I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.

Mitch Albom

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

Mitch Albom

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always s...

Mitch Albom

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

Mitch Albom

You have to work at creating your own culture.

Mitch Albom

You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

Mitch Albom

Author Bio

  • NameMitch Albom
  • DescriptionAmerican author
  • BornMay 23, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Radio Host; Novelist; Journalist
  • WorksTuesdays With Morrie; The Five People You Meet In Heaven; For One More Day