Best 263 quotes in «carpe diem quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

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

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

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.

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 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, 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 finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

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

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.

There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

There's more to life then living, so hold on.

The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

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

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run

Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate our Nation's arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans can access and experience them.

Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?

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