Top 200 Carpe Diem Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “The assumption of time is one of humanity’s greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there’s always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.”

— Richard Paul Evans

152. “Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

153. “Time is flying never to return.”

— Virgil

154. “If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

155. “Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment.”

— Michael Jordan

156. “Sleep is for those people who are broke. I don’t sleep. I’ve got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.”

— Curtis Jackson

157. “Make your life spectacular, I know I did.”

— Robin Williams

158. “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.”

— Mark Van Doren

159. “If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you’ll be waiting till the day you die.”

— Mark Batterson

160. “All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath – so what does that make today worth?”

— Og Mandino

161. “Forget yesterday – it has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow – you haven’t even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift – today.”

— Steve Maraboli

162. “Now is the appointed time. Today is the day of my amazing good fortune.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

163. “To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”

— Edmund Burke

164. “We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

165. “You have to act and act now.”

— Larry Ellison

166. “We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

167. “No day but today.”

— Jonathan Larson

168. “Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

169. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love – then make that day count!”

— Steve Maraboli

170. “History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.”

— Edmund Burke

171. “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.”

— Will Rogers

172. “So act that anything you do may become universal law.”

— Immanuel Kant

173. “Today is an opportunity to do something positive. Today is your chance to add new value to your life and to your world. Make the commitment to fill this day with meaningful richness and purposeful effort. This is your day to live, so do so with vigor and enthusiasm.”

— Ralph Marston

174. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

— Mark Twain

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

— Wynton Marsalis

176. “There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

177. “We should make the most of life, enjoy it because that’s the way it is!”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

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

— Epicurus

179. “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.”

— Margaret Mead

180. “History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.”

— Jean Bodin

181. “If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.”

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Arthur Koestler

183. “There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are.”

— Albert Schweitzer

184. “Today only happens once in a lifetime. Make the most of it.”

— Michael Ray

185. “You’re never too old to chase your dream.”

— Diana Nyad

186. “Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!”

— Robin Williams

187. “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.”

— Ernest Hemingway

188. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”

— William Least Heat-Moon

189. “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.”

— Jonathan Swift

190. “By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

191. “Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.”

— John Armstrong

192. “Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing!”

— Rumi

193. “Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.”

— Albert Schweitzer

194. “Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.”

— Andrew Marvell

195. “My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around.”

— Dr. Seuss

196. “Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

197. “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

198. “Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.”

— Ernest L. Boyer

199. “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

— Robert Frost

200. “When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.”

— Marianne Williamson