Best Carpe Diem Quotes

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man – and I will show you a failure.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

The artist has a special task and duty… reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath–so what does that make today worth?

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Never find your delight in another’s misfortune.

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.