Quotes About Seize

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

One day you will wake up and there wonÂ't be any more time to do the things youÂ've always wanted. Do it now. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

The best time to do something is when it can be done.

You should do everything as if it's the last time you might ever do it. Because, you know, it may be.

Now' is the watchword of the wise.

Screen fictions are intense in their immediacy and ephemeral in terms of their effects: they seize us and then release us almost immediately; with literary fictions, we are prisoners for life.

Don't wait for the perfect opportunity. Just take an opportunity and make it as perfect as you can.

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part. Seize it and let it seize you up aloft even, till your eyes burn out and let your very bones unhinge and scatter, loosened over fields, over fields and woods, lightly, thoughtless, from any height at all, from as high as eagles.

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

You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste to-morrow; it is kept for you.

Nothing could exceed his energy when the working fit was upon him: but now and again a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting- room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night. On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.

Live, Oedipus, as if there's no tomorrow!

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!'

Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn't take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you.

Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!

There is no snooze button on life - Tara Daniels

A life postponed too long might never be lived.

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!

Use your now well now! There is always another day to change something, but all the days we may meet may never be the same. Use your now well now!

Be bold in life. Seize the moment. There is no surrender, no retreat. There is only conquer or be conquered, victory or defeat. Anything less is to be forgotten to history.

I don't fear the future. I fear letting it pass by me, without ever trying to make it mine.