Top 200 Carpe Diem Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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2. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.”

— William W. Purkey

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Optimism Quotes

3. “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Action Quotes, Creativity Quotes

4. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

— Mary Oliver

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Life Lessons Quotes, Choices Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes

5. “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

— Seneca

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Life Is Short Quotes

6. “Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.”

— Robert Herrick

Also featured in: Enjoy Life Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Making Memories Quotes, Time Flies Quotes

7. “Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”

— Rumi

8. “Wake up and live.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Optimistic Quotes

9. “Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Athlete Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

10. “We only get to play this game one time, one life.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Also featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

11. “I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Live Life Quotes, Affirmation Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

12. “Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.”

— Willie Nelson

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Experience Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Soul Quotes

13. “Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Self-Realization Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes

14. “Wherever you are – be all there.”

— Jim Elliot

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Short Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Good Morning Inspirational Quotes

15. “Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

— Doris Lessing

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Impossible Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Design Quotes

16. “There is only one time that is important – NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Important Quotes

17. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

— John Hughes

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

18. “Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.”

— Jim Harbaugh

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Passion Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Football Quotes

19. “Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.”

— Voltaire

Also featured in: Opportunity Quotes

20. “Your problem is that you think you have time.”

— Carlos Castaneda

Also featured in: Quotes About Thinking, Life Is Short Quotes

21. “Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes, Travel Quotes

22. “The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”

— Dan Millman

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Future Quotes, Helping Quotes

23. “There is no time like the present...”

— Georgia Byng

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Short Quotes, Common Sense Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

24. “Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.”

— Aldous Huxley

Also featured in: Enjoy Life Quotes

25. “Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.”

— Ramana Maharshi

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes

26. “The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep!”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Sufism Quotes

27. “The key is this: Meet today’s problems with today’s strength. Don’t start tackling tomorrow’s problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow’s strength yet. You simply have enough for today.”

— Max Lucado

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Christian Motivational Quotes, Problem-Solving Quotes

28. “People need to wake up and realize that life doesn’t wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Common Sense Quotes, Desire Quotes, Quotes About Waiting

29. “It’s a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one’s gonna stop me now.”

— Freddie Mercury

Also featured in: Optimism Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Smile Quotes

30. “We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

31. “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Duty Quotes

32. “Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Valentine's Day Quotes

33. “It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?”

— Zack de la Rocha

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Resistance Quotes, Moving Quotes, Momentum Quotes

34. “Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Strong Quotes, Common Sense Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes

35. “The beautiful thing about TODAY is that you get the choice to make it better than YESTERDAY.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Different Quotes

36. “Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What’s a sundial in the shade?”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Humanism Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Individuality Quotes

37. “Slow down and enjoy the journey right now. Take time for the people in your life. They won’t always be there.”

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Good Morning Quotes

38. “Take it easy baby, take it as it comes – specialize in having fun!”

— Jim Morrison

Also featured in: Crazy Quotes, Joy Quotes, Fun Quotes, Weekend Quotes

39. “Do something about your life now.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Accountability Quotes, New Beginnings Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes

40. “If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?”

— Ray Lewis

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

41. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

— Marthe Troly-Curtin

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Silly Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Witty Quotes

42. “May you live every day of your life.”

— Jonathan Swift

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Inspirational Birthday Quotes

43. “Enjoy every sandwich.”

— Warren Zevon

Also featured in: Enjoy Life Quotes, Silly Quotes, Contentment Quotes, Simple Life Quotes

44. “Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.”

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Future Quotes, Graduation Quotes

45. “Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it’s too late. Say what you’re feeling. Waiting is a mistake.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Love You Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Longing Quotes

46. “Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don’t presume you will have it tomorrow, and don’t waste it today.”

— John Piper

47. “Be in love with your life, every detail of it.”

— Jack Kerouac

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Cute Quotes, Joy Quotes

48. “Don’t start your day with broken pieces of the past. Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day and it’s yours.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Moving Quotes, Healing Quotes

49. “This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we go.”

— Pema Chödrön

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Self-Care Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes

50. “If you don’t act on life, life will act on you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Choices Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes