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Those who seize the day become seriously rich.
Sep 10, 2025
You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.
Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.
Life- ride it until the wheels fall off.
Get rid of all the hesitation, it's time for you to seize the day.
As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
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.
Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
The reason to consider life and what's of value is to make sure you're not missing out. Seize the day. What's important to you? What do you care about? What matters? Pursue that. Forget the rest.
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.
But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks
Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
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.
Do anything, but let it produce joy.
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.
Begin doing what you want to do now.
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.
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!'
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
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.
One can make a day of any size
And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself. For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee.
Today is the first and last day of forever.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Lost time is never found again.
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
You may delay, but time will not.
Enjoy yourself -it's later than you think.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
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.
Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
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.
Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its peak and moved people into the streets to seize the day - the movement was the embodiment of what was happening in the music. This is what taught me that it was possible to bring art and activism together. Without that piece, that energetic embodiment piece, the rest is just intellectual construct.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.
Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)