Horace Quotes

No time like the present

I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.

Act now, for now is all you have.

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

Don't spend your time dreaming, live life now.

Live for each second without hesitation

Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.

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'.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

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

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

We have only today. Let us begin

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.

Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

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

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

Everyone likes to strike while the iron is hot. That's a philosophy I've always liked.

I don't take tomorrow for granted.

Life is very short. Try to enjoy your 'now.' Many people think that when they become such-and-such then they will be happy. I personally don't think it is healthy to postpone your happiness. My message is, 'Enjoy the moment.'

Live and die on this day... Live and die on this day.