Browsing Topic Best Seize The Day Quotes

You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

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.

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.

Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

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.

Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.

Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know, I held opportunity.

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.

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

I say if it’s going to be done, let’s do it. Let’s not put it in the hands of fate. Let’s not put it in the hands of someone who doesn’t know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

You may delay, but time will not.

And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn’t come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself. For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee.

The reason to consider life and what’s of value is to make sure you’re not missing out. Seize the day. What’s important to you? What do you care about? What matters? Pursue that. Forget the rest.

Lost time is never found again.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it’s really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its peak and moved people into the streets to seize the day – the movement was the embodiment of what was happening in the music. This is what taught me that it was possible to bring art and activism together. Without that piece, that energetic embodiment piece, the rest is just intellectual construct.

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you’re responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

There is too much life to be lived for you to hit the snooze button. In fact, I believe it is ‘seize the day’, not ‘snooze the day!’

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero’Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow’ – (Odes) Often translated as ‘Seize the day’.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

Enjoy yourself -it’s later than you think.

Get rid of all the hesitation, it’s time for you to seize the day.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.

One can make a day of any size

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see And pursuing that vision.