200 Carpe Diem Quotes and Sayings to Inspire You Seize the Day

Carpe Diem Quotes

  • “Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!”— Robin Williams
  • “One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.” ―John Coltrane
  • “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” ―Muhammad Ali
  • “To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” ―Edmund Burke
  • “So act that anything you do may become universal law.” ―Immanuel Kant
  • “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.” ―Margaret Mead
  • “History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.” ―Jean Bodin
  • “If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.” ―Drew Barrymore
  • “Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.” ―John Armstrong
  • “Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing!”— Rumi
  • “Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.” ―F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • “This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.” ―Wynton Marsalis
  • “History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.” ―Edmund Burke
  • “There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” ―Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • “By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” ―Rabindranath Tagore
  • “Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.” ―Albert Schweitzer
  • “Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.” ―Rainer Maria Rilke
  • “The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.” ―Arthur Koestler
  • “Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.” ―Andrew Marvell
  • “Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.” ―Cherie Carter-Scott
  • “We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.” ―Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • “The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.” ―Epicurus
  • “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” ―Edgar Allan Poe
  • “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” ―Robert Frost
  • “There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are.” ―Albert Schweitzer
  • “All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath – so what does that make today worth?”— Og Mandino
  • “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
  • “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
  • “There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.” ―Mark Van Doren
  • “Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.” ―Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.” ―Jonathan Swift
  • “Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.” ―Will Rogers
  • “When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.” ―Marianne Williamson
  • “My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around.” ―Dr. Seuss
  • “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” ―William Least Heat-Moon

Seize the Day Quotes – Carpe Diem Quotes

  • “Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)” ―Horace
  • “Wake up and live.” ―Bob Marley
  • “Forever is composed of nows.” ―Emily Dickson
  • “Make each day your masterpiece.” ―John Wooden
  • “Now is the time to seize the day.”
  • “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.”
  • “Lost time is never found again.” ―Benjamin Franklin
  • “Carpe Diem. Seize the day, Make your lives Extraordinary.”
  • “One can make a day of any size.” ―John Muir
  • “Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost.”
  • “On this Monday morning, seize the day and conquer it.”
  • “Today is the day you’ve been waiting for.” ―Marty Rubin
  • “Those who seize the day become seriously rich.” ―Richard Koch
  • Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.” ―Horace
  • “Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.” ―Bill Watterson
  • “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” ―Wayne Dyer
  • “Get rid of all the hesitation, it’s time for you to seize the day.” ―Greyson Chance
  • “You’ve never lived this day before. And you never will again. Make the most of it.”
  • “No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up and never give up.” —Unknown
  • “You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” ―Charles Buxton
  • “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney
  • “At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.” ―Steve Maraboli
  • “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ―Mother Teresa
  • “Seize the day, whatever’s in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.” ―Lloyd Alexander
  • “If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.” ―Kate Atkinson
  • “As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.” ―Horace
  • “Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost its empty and cold without you here.” ―Avenged Sevenfold
  • “Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes and dance.” ―Oprah Winfrey
  • “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.” ―Charles Richards
  • “Today is my day, today I will seize the day. I will explode with positive energy and be all I can be! Why? Because I CAN.”
  • “When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, and to love.” ―Marcus Aurelius
  • “Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.” ―Robin Williams
  • “If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.” ―Robin Williams

Carpe Diem ‘Dead Poets Society’ Quotes

  • “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” ―Henry David Thoreau
  • “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles to-day, to-morrow will be dying.” ―Robert Herrick

Funny Carpe Diem Quotes

  • “Carpe Diem, just remember that we’re partying on the Titanic.” ―Will McIntosh
  • “A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.” ―Richard Flanagan
  • “A terrific game, even on the losing side I could enjoy it.” ―Nigel Worthington
  • “There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.” ―Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • “A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.” ―Alan Cumming
  • “There’s a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country? – Author: Jon Voight
  • “At Uniqlo, we’re thinking ahead. We’re thinking about how to create new, innovative products … and sell that to everyone.” ―Tadashi Yanai
  • “A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning – to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive.” ―Karen Salmansohn
  • “The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.” ―Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations – including counterterrorism operations – in Iraq.” ―Jack Keane
  • “In 2008, a year of supposed ‘food crisis’, we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.” ―Michael Pollan
  • “I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.” ―Lindsey Graham
  • “I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.” ―Joe Morton
  • “Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.” ―Shannon L. Alder
  • “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
  • “We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They’re my weaker events – they don’t come as naturally to me as running and jumping. I like the hurdles and the high-jump, I’m a springy, speedy athlete so those suit me.” ―Jessica Ennis

Inspirational Carpe Diem Quotes – Seize The Day

  • “Travel without a map.” ―Unknown
  • “Say yes to new adventure.” ―Unknown
  • “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” ―Unknown
  • “Getting lost is not a waste of time.” ―Unknown
  • “All good things are wild and free.” —Henry David Thoreau
  • “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.” ―Unknown
  • “No one is in charge of your happiness except yourself.” —Unknown
  • “My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” ―Diane Arbus
  • “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” ―Unknown
  • “Do all that you can and all you thought you could not.” ―Unknown
  • “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” ―C.S. Lewis
  • “If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.” — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • “If you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.” —Conan O’Brien
  • “If you don’t build your dreams, someone will hire you to build theirs.” ―Unknown
  • “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ―Henry Miller
  • “You know all the things you wanted to do? You should go do them.” ―Unknown
  • “You’ll never cross the ocean unless you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” —Unknown
  • “No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up and never give up.” —Unknown
  • “To be yourself in a world that’s constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ―Unknown
  • “You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.” —Andy Warhol

Carpe Diem Quotes about Life

  • “Don’t go through life, grow through life.” —Unknown
  • “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” ―Helen Keller
  • “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” ―Oprah Winfrey
  • “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ―Steve Jobs
  • “Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”
  • “The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.” ―Marjorie Pay Hinckley
  • “God gave us the gift of life, it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” ―Voltaire
  • “We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” ―Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “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
  • “Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.” ―Wayne Dyer
  • “Each moment of your life is a picture you have never seen before and will never see again. So live each moment to make it count & make each moment beautiful.” ―Ash Sweeney
  • “I live my life based on two principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.” ―Osho
  • “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” ―Mark Twain

Carpe Diem Seize the Moment Quotes

  • “Seize the moment.” ―Erma Bombeck
  • “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” ―T. S. Eliot
  • “Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.” ―Theodore Roosevelt
  • “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” ―Tony Robbins
  • “The right man is the one who seizes the moment.” ―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” ―Aristotle
  • “Don’t while away time but create pleasant memories and feel the moment.” ―Robert K. Taolana
  • “Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat.” ―Goldie Hawn
  • “Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.” ―Friedrich Schiller
  • “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the desert cart.” ―Erma Bombeck
  • “Time is something you can’t get back – make the most of every moment.” ―William E Lewis Jr.
  • “Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment. Take this day, this moment and lead it to perfection.” ―Steve Maraboli
  • “Today is all you have. Don’t worry about tomorrow. Just do the best you can right now. One day, one moment at a time.” ―Akiroq Brost
  • “If you had one shot, or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment, would you capture it, or just let it slip?” ―Eminem
  • “Enjoy it, learn from it and more than anything, and never take your health for granted. Don’t just seize the day. Seize the moment. Every single one.” ―Calvin Wade
  • “Every moment is precious. Don’t wait for perfect moment. Grab it at the earliest. If you wait too long for perfect moment, the moment will pass you by.” ―Anil Sinha
  • “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” ―Lord Chesterfield
  • “Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That’s the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real–the here-and-now. Seize the day.” ―Saul Bellow

Short Quotes about Carpe Diem

  • “What you resist, persist.” ―C.G. Jung
  • “Nothing will work unless you do.” ―Maya Angelou
  • “Forever – is composed of Nows.” ―Emily Dickinson
  • “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” ―Jean de la Bruyere
  • “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ―Confucius
  • “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ―Aristotle
  • “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ―Oscar Wilde
  • “Whatever you are, be a good one.” ―Abraham Lincoln
  • “You never fail until you stop trying.” ―Albert Einstein
  • “If you want to be happy, be.” ―Tolstoy Leo
  • “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ―Theodore Roosevelt
  • “The only journey is the one within.” ―Rainer Maria Rilke
  • “Not being heard is no reason for silence.” ―Victor Hugo
  • “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” ―Maya Angelou
  • “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ―Rumi
  • “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” ―Pablo Picasso
  • “Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.” ―Epictetus
  • “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “I am a part of all that I have met.” ―Alfred Tennyson
  • “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ―Lao Tzu
  • “Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” ―Roy T. Bennett
  • “He who has a way to live can bear almost any how.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” ―Lao Tzu

Seize The Day Carpe Diem

  • “Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost.” —Unknown
  • “Dare to seize every opportunity on your life’s journey.” ―Lailah Gifty Akita
  • “Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.” ―Jessica Sorensen
  • “Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities, seize common occasions and make them great.” ―Orison Swett Marden
  • “Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.” ―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “Your life isn’t behind you; your memories are behind you. Your life is ALWAYS ahead of you. Today is a new day – seize it!” ―Steve Maraboli
  • “If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.” ―Robin Williams
  • “But sometimes you’ve got to seize the day. Be a bit more spontaneous. Say yes to things when they come up, rather than always saying no. Turn every negative into a positive. Otherwise you might be missing out on life.” ―Matt Dunn
  • “Seize The Moment because you never know if that moment will ever come your way again. I know that when I look back at my life, I will see the memories of all the little adventures that I didn’t let pass me by.” ―Cody Atencio

Carpe Diem Quotes and Sayings

  • “Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
  • “The future depends on what you do today.” ―Mahatma Gandhi
  • “The future starts today, not tomorrow.” ―Pope John Paul II
  • “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” ―Napoleon Hill
  • “Nothing is worth more than this day.” ―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.” ―Gina Greenlee
  • “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
  • “Begin doing what you want to do now.” ―Marie Beynon Lyons Ray
  • “If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.” ―Larry McMurtry
  • “Don’t waste today by talking about yesterday until it’s finally tomorrow.” ―Tim Fargo
  • “Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” ―Albert Camus
  • “Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.” ―Jessica Sorensen
  • “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ―Mae West
  • “The past ruins the present to destroy the future. Take charge of the now.” ―RVM
  • “Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow’s past and change it.” ―Robert Breault
  • “Stop thinking about the future if you want to do something do it now.” ―Kimiko Rei
  • “Let’s just enjoy what we have now and worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes.” ―James Hampton
  • “You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.” ―Ruth E. Renkl
  • “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ―Mother Teresa
  • “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ―Melody Beattie
  • “Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever day’s fortune will give, count them as profit.” ―Horace
  • “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ―Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”
  • “We might have hope, but there’ll be no assurance of tomorrow, so do whatever you want today.” ―Kaceem Aveiro
  • “Make the best of today, as you will never have another chance to experience this day again.” ―Kaijuanda Sutton
  • “Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” ―Art Buchwald
  • “A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.” ―Francis Bacon
  • “When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.” ―Omar Khayyam
  • “Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” ―Mignon McLaughlin
  • “Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours should not be numbered by years, days, and hours.” ―Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas
  • “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.” ―Jack London
  • “Live every day as if it were going to be your last; for one day you’re sure to be right.” ―Harry “Breaker” Harbord Morant
  • “Tomorrow is not promised and the past cannot be changed therefore live each day to the fullest and know that every new day is a blessing.” ―Nishan Panwar
  • “Take on today, this new day by force and do something you never did before; like live. Today was given to you for a reason, so rejoice and be happy.”
  • “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Be true and faithful to yourself, and start the day with a promise to make your day worth remembering. Carry the good work of yesterday to a logical end today.” ―Anil Sinha
  • “If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.” ―Robin Williams
  • “I can’t control my destiny, I trust my soul, and my only goal is just to be. There’s only now, there’s only here. Give in to love or live in fear. No other path, no other way. No day but today.” ―Johnathan Larson