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Quotes About Seize

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
~ Paulo Coelho
Live each day as if it's your last.
~ Unknown
I believe life is too short to wait and see.
~ Paige Toon
Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day, and it's yours.
~ Zig Ziglar
How wretched is the man who sees the perfect opportunity and still waits for a better one.
~ Chrétien de Troyes
What can you catch but not throw?
~ Chris Grabenstein
You've been handed a chance in life, and I want you to grab it with both hands and not look back.
~ Chris Moriarty
To perceive means to immobilize ... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
~ Henri Bergson
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?… What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that…. The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have…. Live!
~ Henry James
The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Enjoy today because it won't come back.
~ Leslie Gould
Puoi passare la vita ad aspettare momenti perfetti, ma a volte devi crearne uno.
~ Lev Grossman
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
~ Kofi Annan
I've always had this incredible sense of urgency. I've always had this desire not to let things fester and to really seize the moment, because it's serendipity.
~ Sergio Marchionne
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
~ Ashley Montagu
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
~ Ada Lovelace
The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!
~ Dada Vaswani
You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest.
~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson
You cannot trust yourself,' she agreed, bed-rock calm. 'Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me.
~ Janny Wurts
I am Nestor's delicious drinking cup. Whoever drinks from this cup swiftly will the desire of fair-crowned Aphrodite seize him.
~ Jared Diamond
Life's not what you think. It's like water – the young let it slip through their fingers without thinking. Shut your hands, Antigone, shut them tight and hold it back. You'll see – it'll turn into something small and hard that you can sit and munch in the sun.
~ Jean Anouilh
His recent dungeon experience had persuaded him that opportunites for good things should be grabbed and not postponed. You never knew when you wouldn't be around anymore.
~ Jean Ferris
Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
~ Jeanette Winterson