Top 100 Quotes About Carpe Diem
#1. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.
A.W. Tozer
#2. Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.
Jay-Z
#3. 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
#5. 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
#7. Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
Abraham Lincoln
#8. When she'd stepped back into my life, I'd seized the moment. I'd carpe'd the fucking diem.
Meghan March
#9. Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
Gina Greenlee
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
George Washington
#14. 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
#15. Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.
Paulo Coelho
#16. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.
Henry James
#18. 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
#19. carpe diem (seize the day)
Enjoy! Enjoy!
Horace
#20. 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
#21. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa
#22. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
#23. I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!
Jerry Scott
#24. What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
Thomas More
#25. 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
#27. Carpe Diem," Keating whispered loudly. "Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.
N.H. Kleinbaum
#28. I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.
Gail Carriger
#29. When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...
Marcus Aurelius
#30. Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
Erma Bombeck
#31. Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.
Jessica Sorensen
#32. Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
Norman Douglas
#33. Hunt while you can. The weather may change tomorrow.
Debra Doyle
#34. We are the change we have been waiting for.
Barack Obama
#35. Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets.
Roman Payne
#37. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.
Robin Williams
#38. When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.
Rudolf Steiner
#39. 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
#40. Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
Horace
#41. So act that anything you do may become universal law.
Immanuel Kant
#42. We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#43. 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
#46. The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle.
#47. If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
Thomas Merton
#48. 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
#50. 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
#52. All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath
so what does that make today worth?
Og Mandino
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
Robin Williams
#57. Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.
James Dean
#59. 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
#60. 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,
#61. Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Liz Smith
#62. Carpe diem they say, Seize the day, Because before long, Tomorrow will dawn, And you will be gone.
Laura Thalassa
#63. You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
Alan Cumming
#64. A spiritual life means: It is now or never.
Sri Chinmoy
#65. 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
#66. Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero.
Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.
Horace
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.
Jack Black
#70. Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
John Cage
#71. 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
#72. Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.
Steve Maraboli
#73. Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.
Virgil
#74. The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.
Leo Babauta
#75. Well, it does make you realize that life, even at its longest, is still very short.
Kaira Rouda
#76. 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
#77. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.
Ugo Betti
#82. Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)
Horace
#84. But bid life seize the present?
It lives less in the present
Than in the future always,
And less in both together
Than in the past.
The present
Is too much for the senses,
Too crowding, too confusing
Too present to imagine.
Robert Frost
#85. The artist has a special task and duty ... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
Lewis Mumford
#86. I believe, my lady, that life is the phantom, and love still more fleeting and elusive - here one minute like a sweet scent you can't quite recognize and gone the next. Best enjoy both while you can.
Dawn Hammill
#87. Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
Calvin Coolidge
#88. Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
Norman Podhoretz
#89. One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
John Coltrane
#90. We must realize that we have a choice. We are responsible for our own good time ... When you do something you are proud of, dwell on it a little, praise yourself for it, relish the experience, take it in.
David Berkowitz
#91. I got over it, and I'm now a firm advocate of instant gratification. Carpe diem, Ana.
E.L. James
#92. Live the moment, Seize the day, Carpe diem
Lucia Powers
#93. Each day gives the opportunity for you to be treated right, to feel worthy, and to be successful. It's a choice you have to make, a faith you have to embrace, and a standard you have to set.
Steve Maraboli
#94. 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
#96. But tomorrow my rain, so I'll follow the sun
The Beatles
#97. What are you willing to have left undone in your life? Don't let yourself be another example of a life gambled but not lived. Do not waste another day! If not now, when?
Steve Maraboli
#98. So it's pretty simple. Go sing. Sing well or sing badly -it doesn't matter, as long as you sing your fucking heart out.
Adi Alsaid
#99. Funny to think that every day you have ever lived is a yesterday, and you will never live one single tomorrow. But then again, every day is a today when you're living it.
Mik Everett
#100. Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass
Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass.
Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young
Or be left
an old barrel with many a bung.
X.J. Kennedy
