Horace Quotes and Sayings Quotes by Horace. I hope you like these Horace quotes from my collection of quotes about life. The harder you fall the higher you bounce. Related topics: Motivational Perseverance. Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. Horace — Roman Poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintillian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: 'He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures.

• Horace Quotes about Heaven All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches. Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
• The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
• Quotes from Ancient Times Horace 65 - 8 BC. Scholars dispute, and the case is still before the courts. I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. Tiresome, complaining, a praiser of past times. If possible honestly, if not. Somehow, make money. We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

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Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
- Horace

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb

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Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein

In the midst of crisis, boldly seize opportunity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am ready and willing to seize the opportunities life offers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Manage the remarkable balance between acting
from your heart and close to your gifts
with completing the obligations
that your labor and tasks require of you.
Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I take every opportunity to articulate to others
the ways that they have blessed and influenced me.
I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity
to thank teachers who have influenced me.
I encourage everyone to seize opportunities
to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Sharpen your pencil as you create the story of your life.
Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view -
what is the highest and best use
of your talents, skills and abilities?
When you answer that,
seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities
even more sharply by applying your focused effort.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view -
what is the highest and best use
of your talents, skills and abilities?
When you answer that, seize the opportunity
to sharpen those qualities even more sharply
by applying your focused effort.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.'
- Elizabeth Warren

I offer gentle understanding to myself.
I position myself in love, not fear.
I look behind me with forgiveness.
I look forward with festive anticipation.
I embrace this holy moment and assert,
'Now. This moment is the moment to love,
the moment to serve, the moment to seize
the legacy instead of the small.
Now. Now I will live large, love boldly,
reach to the edges of my unfurled heart and fully enrolled hope.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man
is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain

People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein

The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein

When a person doesn't have gratitude,
something is missing in his or her humanity.
A person can almost be defined by
his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel

For those who are bored with life,
the path to happiness almost always comes
through service to the less-fortunate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

Anger is something that each one of us has experienced -
some of us only occasionally, some almost daily.
Can we eliminate all anger? Probably not.
We will always have expectations,
and those expectations will often be unmet.
Disappointment is the principle cause of anger.
When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.
Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.
Anger is always directed at someone -
possibly toward God or the non-specific 'they,'
but at some animate entity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Consider being more acceptive of your partner's behaviors.
It is unlikely that they are intentionally aggravating you.
Almost always, they are just doing what they think they should do.
Try setting aside your own rules for how they should behave,
and adopt a live-and-let-live attitude.
Your relationship will become stronger and happier if you do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Almost nothing you worry about today
will matter in a hundred years.
Think carefully about what you can focus on today.
Choose tasks that will actually make a positive difference
to your great-grandchildren.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying
as to make the thought of global war
include almost a sentence for suicide,
you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension...
would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pray for the angry,
but express your prayers and intentions silently.
Saying openly to an angry person,
'I pray for you to receive inner-peace.'
is almost certain to provoke an even angrier reaction.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous

Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono

Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour
when every one has to throw off his mask?
Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked?
Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight
in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it?
I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others
that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;...
In every man there is something which to a certain degree
prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself;
and this may be the case in so high a degree,
he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life
which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself.
But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love,
and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Probably the happiest period in life
most frequently is in middle age,
when the eager passions of youth are cooled,
and the infirmities of age not yet begun;
as we see that the shadows,
which are at morning and evening so large,
almost entirely disappear at midday.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain

One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water.
After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
- Minnie Pearl

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin

We are always getting ready to live but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many important things shouldn't be done half-way.
Think of getting married, having children,
starting a business, changing your career.
There are times to gather your courage
and make the leap, the whole leap.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett

When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln

Not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Dalai Lama

When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes
the greater part of his life getting his living.
- Henry David Thoreau

The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein

Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous

What you don't do daily, you probably won't do weekly either.
What you make a habit of putting-off
just keeps getting pushed away again and again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang

You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard

Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't
come as a result of getting something we don't have,
but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
- Frederick Koenig

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain

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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

A picture is a poem without words.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Always keep your composure. You can’t score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Anger is a short madness.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Don’t think, just do.

Every old poem is sacred.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

He gains everyone’s approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

I teach that all men are mad.

If a man’s fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.

It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Leave the rest to the gods.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Make a good use of the present.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

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

Strange – is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

We are free to yield to truth.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Horace Quotes A-z

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Seize The Day Quotes Horace

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Famous Quotes Horace Mann

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.