Seize The Day Quotes

• Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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  Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, New Year, Mother

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.17, New World Library

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• Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Trust, Opportunity

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• Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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• Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.

  Robin Williams

  Love Life, Extraordinary

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• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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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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• 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, Carpe Diem

  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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• 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, Carpe Diem, Hands

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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, Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society

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

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  Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

  Horace

  Movie, Wise, Latin

  Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). “The Odes of Horace”, p.27, JHU Press

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• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Graduation, Dream

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

  Annie Dillard

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.274, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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  No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Change, Philosophy

  "Robin Williams: Genie in the Lamp" by Alex Kip, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2014.

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• One can make a day of any size

  John Muir

  Brightness, Size, Seizing

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.218, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

  Anita Baker

  Teaching, Learning, Fate

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• Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

  Horace

  No Trust, Morrow

  Odes bk. 1, no. 11, l. 7

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• Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

  Robert Breault

  Life Is Short, Focus, Way

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• Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

  Dr. Seuss

  Friday, Uncles, Night

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• 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

  Meaningful, Real, Dead Poets Society

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

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• 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!'

  Hal Elrod

  Believe, Buttons, Wake Up

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• I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.

  Hazel Ying Lee

  Stars, Flower, Carpe Diem

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