Browsing Topic Best Carpe Diem Quotes

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

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.

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

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

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

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

Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

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

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

You may delay, but time will not.

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.

The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

A valuable lesson I’ve learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.

Yes, I know.Death sits with his key in my lock.Not one day is taken for granted.Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.