Carpe Quotes - Page 2

• Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

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• Life begins when you do.

  Hugh Downs

  Carpe Diem

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

  William Habington

  Carpe Diem, Years

  William Habington (1948). “Poems”

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• Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Art, Carpe Diem, People

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1022, Best Books on

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• Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

  David Brin

  Inspiring, Apology, Carpe Diem

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• 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

  Carpe Diem, Opportunity, Swings

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• One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

  John Coltrane

  Carpe Diem, Positive Vibrations, Positive Thoughts

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• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

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  Don't count the days, make the days count.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2011

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• 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

  Stars, Flower, Carpe Diem

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• 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.

  Dave Eggers

  Love, Carpe Diem, Thinking

  "What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng". Book by Dave Eggers, 2006.

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Commitment, Insperational, Carpe Diem

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

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

  Calvin Coolidge

  Money, Carpe Diem, Government

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• 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

  Believe, Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society

  "Apple Ad Features Robin Williams’ 'Dead Poets Society' Speech" by Michelle Jones, www.valuewalk.com. August 12, 2014.

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• When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Carpe Diem, Wasting Time, Remember

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• And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, People, Sin

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

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Love, Trust, Mistake

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• Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Hell

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.337, Hachette UK

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

  Tom Schulman

  Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society, Engineering

  "Dead Poets Society". www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

  Robin Williams

  Wise, Memorable, Learning

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Book, Carpe Diem

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• So act that anything you do may become universal law.

  Immanuel Kant

  Carpe Diem, Law, May

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• We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Clever, Carpe Diem

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

  Lewis Mumford

  Creativity, Artist, Carpe Diem

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• Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective.

  William J. Clinton

  Communication, Creativity, School

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