Horace Quotes

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

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

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

As I don't know about tomorrow, I never save the best for later.

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

I never look forward. I live for today. And if you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true.

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

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'.

Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

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.

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

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

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be.

I love the fact that tomorrow never comes. You can never wake up and say, 'It's tomorrow.' It's always today.

I don't take tomorrow for granted.