150 Seize The Day Quotes

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Famous Seize The Day Quotes

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

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

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.) — Horace

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

Grab this day by the neck and kiss it. — Bill Murray

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. - Friedrich Schiller

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. — Friedrich Schiller

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. — Lord Chesterfield

Love your life, live for the day — Jeff Hardy

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. — Lord Chesterfield

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. — Horace

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you. — Clive Davis

Live each day as if it be your last. — Marcus Aurelius

Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt. — Audrey Hepburn

Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow. — Horace

Make hay while the sun shines. — John Heywood

Short Seize The Day Quotes

  • Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. — Bulgarian Proverbs
  • Live each day as if it were your last for some day it will be. — Billy Graham
  • Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce. — Nick Carter
  • Make a good use of the present. — Horace
  • Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece. — Dale West
  • Make use of time, let not advantage slip. — William Shakespeare
  • Live each day like it's your last, 'cause one day you gonna be right — Ray Charles
  • Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life. — Mark Twain
  • Make each day a new horizon. — Christopher McCandless
  • Wake up and live — Bob Marley

Seize The Day Image Quotes

Seize the day quote Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

Grasp The Day Quotes

Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood – in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad; cheerfulness – in a day when the pessimists have the floor and cynics are popular; service – in a day when millions are interested in getting or grasping, rather than giving — E. Urner Goodman

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. — Swami Vivekananda

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. — Abraham Lincoln

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry. — Thomas Paine

Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it — Thomas S. Monson

The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything. — C. S. Lewis

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control. — Jack Henry Abbott

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe. — Tony Snow

I see a comparison between the two [Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump]. Peace through strength. What Chris Matthews don't grasp is that day Donald Trump gave a speech in which he said he's going to build the U.S. military up to Ronald Reagan levels. — Rudy Giuliani

Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of that bubble, reputation, which, when once grasped, breaks in your eager clutch into a hundred lesser bubbles, that soar above you still. — Donald Grant Mitchell

Seize The Moment Quotes

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. — Leo Tolstoy

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever. — Robert Burns

In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing. — Hank Aaron

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart. — Erma Bombeck

When we miss it, it really does pass us by. Tomorrow presents another opportunity for awareness, but it’s never an opportunity for the same awareness. — Rick Rubin

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. — Ashley Montagu

Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment. — Stephen Sondheim

Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland. — Nicola Sturgeon

I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible. — Sam Taylor-Wood

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again. — Aidan Chambers

Seize Life Quotes

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you think life's too short, do something about it. — David Sinclair

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower — John Bunyan

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire. — John L. Bates

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed. — Robert Burns

It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. — Woody Allen

Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business. — Jeremy Collier

In every life there is a moment – an event or a realization – that changes that life irrevocably. If the change is to be a happy one, one must be able to recognize the moment and seize it without delay. — Estee Lauder

It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our soul. — Origen

I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer. — Mikhail Lermontov

Seize Every Moment Quotes

You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure. — Angelo Sotira

In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment. — Pat Riley

We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day. — Orlando Bloom

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. — Andre Gide

Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life. — Dick Pound

The people who excel in any field are people who realize that the moment is there to be seized-that there are opportunities at every turn. They are more alive to the moment. — Charles Faulkner

Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. — Wayne Dyer

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. — Lord Chesterfield

The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment. — Steve Maraboli

I've always lived to seize the moment, to squeeze every drop of expectation out of myself for whatever that moment gives you. — Greg Norman

Live For The Day Quotes

Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously. — Francis of Assisi

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence. — Eugene V. Debs

Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man. — Abraham Lincoln

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities. — Les Claypool

Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break. — Aimee Semple McPherson

You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years. — Chris Rock

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors. — Thomas Jefferson

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Winning The Day Quotes

The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours. — Woody Hayes

The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race. - Bob Marley

The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race. — Bob Marley

You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day. — Ken Griffey, Jr.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. — Marian Wright Edelman

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power. — Robert H. Jackson

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal. — Hope Solo

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream. — Emmitt Smith

Celebration is big for me. From my younger days, when I used to win mementos while playing basketball, I have always believed in sharing my success. It has to be there. It lifts the energy levels of the entire side if you are positive and vocal when a wicket falls. — Suresh Raina

For me, winning was ‘job done.’ I would practise the day after. — Stephen Hendry

Grasp The Moment Quotes

In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art. — Marcel Marceau

Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there. — Loren Eiseley

It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind. — Paul Ryan

Let us each grasp a new idea this year. Let us grasp the awareness of what it is that makes us truly happy. Let us consider our personal preferences and learn how to recognize, then embrace, moments of happiness that are uniquely our own. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. — Arnold Bennett

The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it. At such times, all things are possible: "to a mind that is 'still' the whole universe surrenders". — Sheldon B. Kopp

One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall;Some are coming, some are going;Do not strive to grasp them all. — Adelaide Proctor

I don't think in the past. I don't think in the future. You grasp the moment. — Eli Manning

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one's grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible. — E. A. Bucchianeri

What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men. — Irving Kaufman

Seize The Opportunity Quotes

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. — Harry S Truman

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. — Harry S. Truman

By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once. — Rumi

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. — Mike Huckabee

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly. — Satya Nadella

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. — Harry S. Truman

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. — Orison Swett Marden

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe. — Maggie Gallagher

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it. — Shelby Steele

Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities. — Michael Josephson

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More Seize The Day Quotes

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. — Og Mandino

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. — Jane Yolen

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

Life- ride it until the wheels fall off. — Martin Lawrence

Do anything, but let it produce joy. — Walt Whitman

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. — Howard Schultz

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

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. — Brittany Maynard

Enjoy yourself -it's later than you think. — Guy Lombardo

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be. — Robin Williams

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

Tomorrow we'll not only seize the day, we'll throttle it. — Bill Watterson

So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment,” the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats. — Mark Steyn

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much. — Kate Atkinson

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. — John Grogan

Plunge boldly into the thick of life! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary. — Robin Williams

I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?' It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does. — Mark Batterson

If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die. — Mark Batterson

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you. — Lloyd Alexander

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

Once you realize there is a Higher Power, you know you're not alone, that you have a purpose on the planet. You control your destiny instead of letting the day lead you where it may. You seize it, take it and lead it. — Queen Latifah

Begin doing what you want to do now. — Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

Today is the first and last day of forever. — Stephenie Meyer

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. — Mignon McLaughlin

In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential. — Jim Doyle

One can make a day of any size — John Muir

Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you can, and use it to change the world. — Rodney Williams Jr.

Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him. — Charles R. Swindoll

Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future. — Horace

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'. — Horace

Those who seize the day become seriously rich. — Richard Koch

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! — Horace

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus. — Robert Breault

Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up — Isaac Mizrahi

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

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow. — Horace

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

For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me. Before, I had never experienced aught but a not unpleasing sadness. The bond of a common humanity now drew me irresistibly to gloom. A fraternal melancholy! For both I and Bartleby were sons of Adam. I remembered the bright silks and sparkling faces I had seen that day, in gala trim, swanlike sailing down the Mississippi of Broadway; and I contrasted them with the pallid copyist, and thought to myself, Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none. — Herman Melville

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