Top 100 Carpe'd Quotes
#1. I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!
Jerry Scott
#3. When she'd stepped back into my life, I'd seized the moment. I'd carpe'd the fucking diem.
Meghan March
#4. Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero.
Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.
Horace
#6. Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.
Tertullian
#7. I'm fairly certain YOLO is just Carpe Diemm for stupid people.
Jack Black
#8. A spiritual life means: It is now or never.
Sri Chinmoy
#9. The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.
Dan Millman
#10. You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
Alan Cumming
#11. Carpe diem they say, Seize the day, Because before long, Tomorrow will dawn, And you will be gone.
Laura Thalassa
#13. Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Liz Smith
#14. Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.
Ernest Hemingway,
#15. Millions of people have lived on the earth, and we don't know even their names. Accept that simple fact - you are here for only a few days and then you will be gone. These few days are not to be wasted in hypocrisy, in fear. These days have to be rejoiced.
Osho
#17. Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.
James Dean
#19. I say, carpe the chaos, for in chaos is opportunity.
Gloria Feldt
#20. They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.
Rachel Caine
#21. I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
Robin Williams
#22. Carpe Diem. The words are etched in the metal pendant. Tomorrow isn't a guarantee. Nothing is promised. So today? Seize the Day.
That's how Naz lives his life.
That's how I want to live it with him.
J.M. Darhower
#23. It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.
John R. Platt
#24. All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath
so what does that make today worth?
Og Mandino
#26. I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. You can bet I'm going to make this day count! Will you?
Steve Maraboli
#27. It's YOUR journey. Ask yourself who you are, where you want to go, and how you'd like to get there. Graciously accept advice from everyone, but don't look left and right and wonder why you're not taking the path of your peers. Enjoy the path you're on and make the most of it. Carpe College!
Michael Metzler
#28. Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
Horace
#30. Then to this earthen Bowl did I adjourn
My Lip the secret Well of Life to learn:
And Lip to Lip it murmur'd
'While you live,
Drink!
for once dead you never shall return.
Omar Khayyam
#31. Because I'd like to think I can still summon the total carpe diem, reckless abandon, bulletproof sense of invincibility that I once had wearing that shirt.
Emily Spivack
#32. People - especially men - don't always know what they want. You try, and if it doesn't work, then you may quit."
With a broken heart. As if she'd read her mind, Abuelita frowned and scolded, "Hearts mend, but lost chances are gone forever.
Cherise Sinclair
#33. The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#34. Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks
Liz Jensen
#35. Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.
Ugo Betti
#36. So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister's Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What's wrong with me?
Laini Taylor
#37. The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#38. We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#40. To-morrow - oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.
James Montgomery
#41. My absolute favourite one is " Seize the Day " I did Latin for A level and the same in the original, " Carpe Diem " is now a great T shirt and coffee mug logo. I love it.
Judith Thomas
#42. Well, it does make you realize that life, even at its longest, is still very short.
Kaira Rouda
#43. The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.
Leo Babauta
#45. Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.
Virgil
#46. Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.
Steve Maraboli
#47. The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
Frank Barron
#48. Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
John Cage
#49. I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.
Jack Black
#50. I want very much to carpe you," it says. "I may try to surprise you, though, if that's okay. Also, I can't feel my face and hands.
Laini Taylor
#51. This is why they say you should look before you leap. They say a lot of things. Carpe diem. Even platitudes contradict each other. Man, this has to be the longest fall ever if I have the time to think all this.
Swati Avasthi
#52. Michael, don't," Eve said. "He won't hurt us." Andeveryone rolled their eyes at that. Even Jason, which was borderline hilarious.
Rachel Caine
#53. What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
Thomas More
#54. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
#55. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa
#56. Someday the Sun will explode, and what about our journalism and poetry then? Well, so what? To hell with our exploding Sun. We have to do what we can do in the time we can act.
Bruce Sterling
#57. carpe diem (seize the day)
Enjoy! Enjoy!
Horace
#58. What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.
Robert Breault
#60. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.
Henry James
#61. Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.
Paulo Coelho
#62. This moment is yours and yours alone! Take charge, seize this moment and allow it to propel you to the high levels of an empowered life. Allow upon this fertile moment to be planted the seeds of your happiness and success.
Steve Maraboli
#63. The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
Aaron Patzer
#64. It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
George Washington
#65. I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.
Sean Pertwee
#66. YOLO. A slogan, a rallying cry, carpe diem for the skateboarder set: You only live once. But was it true? That was the problem, wasn't it? She had never thought about it in any deep way. She hadn't had the time or inclination to speculate about other lives: this one was hard enough to manage.
Sharon Guskin
#67. Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.
Ernest L. Boyer
#68. He rolled the other way and watched the digital display of his alarm ticking seconds off he'd never get back. This is the life we're given. One life. One opportunity to be happy, to make others happy, and I'm letting it slip through my fingers because I'm afraid.
Barbara Elsborg
#69. Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
Gina Greenlee
#70. Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
Abraham Lincoln
#72. I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.
Brittany Murphy
#74. You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
Henry David Thoreau
#75. Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.
Jay-Z
#76. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.
A.W. Tozer
#78. If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
Thomas Merton
#79. The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle.
#82. Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.
Robin Williams
#83. We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#84. So act that anything you do may become universal law.
Immanuel Kant
#85. Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
Horace
#86. I have a "carpe diem" mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet. (Oct. 28th is officially Slap A Dead Poet Day in our Family now)
Joanne Sherman
#87. When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.
Rudolf Steiner
#88. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.
Robin Williams
#89. My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]
Stephen Hawking
#90. Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets.
Roman Payne
#91. We are the change we have been waiting for.
Barack Obama
#92. Hunt while you can. The weather may change tomorrow.
Debra Doyle
#93. Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
Norman Douglas
#94. Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.
Jessica Sorensen
#95. Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
Erma Bombeck
#96. When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...
Marcus Aurelius
#97. I don't know you, and I'll never see you again, so why not carpe the...dick?
Abigail Barnette
#98. I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.
Gail Carriger
#99. Carpe Diem," Keating whispered loudly. "Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.
N.H. Kleinbaum
