Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 3

• Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

  Robin Williams

  Boys, Dead Poets Society, Voice

  "Ficitonal character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Inspirational, Life And Love, Regret

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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  Don't count the days, make the days count.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2011

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• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Commitment, Insperational, Opportunity

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

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• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.150, Lulu.com

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• To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Life And Love, Philosophical

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1962). “Brutus”, Loeb Classical Library

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

  Bernard Berenson

  Time, Hands, People

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• We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

  Robin Williams

  Inspiration, Dead Poets Society, Laughing

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Do anything, but let it produce joy.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Joy, Having Fun

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Money, Government, Temptation

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• Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

  Art Buchwald

  Inspirational, Time, Acceptance

  CNN Newsroom With Kyra Phillips and Don Lemon, transcripts.cnn.com. November 02, 2006.

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• I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.200, Macmillan

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Believe, Dead Poets Society, Breathing

  "Apple Ad Features Robin Williams’ 'Dead Poets Society' Speech" by Michelle Jones, www.valuewalk.com. August 12, 2014.

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• Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Gratitude, Lying

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• We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

  Robin Williams

  Cute, Writing, Dead Poets Society

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Half, Would Be

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• All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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  Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

  John Muir

  Life, Strength, Beauty

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

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• By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beauty, Flower, Petals

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.414, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Food, Humor

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• There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Taken, Sunset

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, Nature, Morning

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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