Best 263 quotes in «carpe diem quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

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

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.

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

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

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

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

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

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

This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.