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Quotes About Carpe Diem

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seize the hour.
~ Sophocles
Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
~ Publilius Syrus
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.
~ Joseph Hall
This is not a dress rehearsal. This is It.
~ Tom Cunningham
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
~ Horace
Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
~ Martial
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again, tomorrow.
~ Anonymous
Now is the only time we own; give, love, toil with a will. And place no faith in tomorrow, for the clock may then be still.
~ Anonymous
Happy the man, and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who, secure within can say, "Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today."
~ Henry Fielding
Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.
~ Old Eskimo proverb
The present is all you have for your certain possession.
~ Anonymous
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is cash in hand. Spend It!
~ John W Newbern
And if not now, when?
~ Talmud
Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
~ Saint Isidore of Seville
Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seize time by the forelock.
~ Pittacus of Mitylene
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.
~ John Dryden
Tomorrow life is too late: live today.
~ Martial
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
~ Samuel Johnson
Life, he thought, was much too uncertain for some to risk saving the best for last.
~ J.D. Robb
Life is short. We need to do what we can to live while we're here.
~ J.R. Ward
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain
~ Jack Kerouac