Best 263 quotes in «carpe diem quotes» category

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

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

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

My most fundamental hope is for a worldwide attitude of tolerance, which will only come through education and an awareness of other cultures and religions. The more people are exposed to other philosophies and thoughts, the more possible it becomes to resolve world conflicts peacefully. Education builds tolerance for other points of view.

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

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.

Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.

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.

Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness.

The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.