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“I give my soul to God. I bequeath the example of my public life to the youth of the world, praying they may emulate me in dedicating their own lives to securing justice for the poor of their generation, as I did mine.”
Kate Barnard (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love how brave she is in her skin, how she’s not ashamed & afraid of her voice & thoughts. She knows what she wants and she goes for it. She’s not afraid of saying; No and doesn’t give a hoot of what people think of her. She lives her life according to her rules”
Nombulelo Mhlongo (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the Lord my God lives, if I beget either male or female, I will bring it as a gift to the Lord my God; and it shall minister to Him in holy things all the days of its life.”
Saint Anne (55 BC–12) said by 12 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The government demonstrated its weakness and appears to have given way to pressure from extremists. In our diocese and all over the country Christians and Muslims have campaigned together for the abolition of the death penalty. This campaign has nothing to do with religion. Every life is precious. Our campaign is to save all lives.”
Vincentius Sensi Potokota (1951–2023) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Catholic Bishop of Maumere (Flores): “We shouted and campaigned for all human life not only the lives of our three Catholics and we will continue the battle side by side with our Muslim brothers and sisters (26 Septembe…
“Today, the most famous scene from Mary's life and, perhaps, in is the stormy summer night at the on when Byron, his handsome young doctor , the Shelleys and , who was carrying Byron's child, decided to write for fun. This was the night on which Frankenstein, that best known of all Romantic works, was born. Its author was not yet nineteen. Frankenstein has become part of our lives.”
Miranda Seymour (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our words are seeds of life. Let us sow seeds of goodness and positivity into the lives of children; and nourish them through our good.”
Rochas Okorocha (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The image that lives within us is linked to our conception of life and also to the difference we make between dying and death.”
Eugenio Borgna (1930–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I grew up in Rwanda and witnessed firsthand how lack of clean water shapes the lives and dignity of families. For me, 'water is life' isn't a slogan – it's a daily reality. It means freedom for women, health for children, and opportunity for entire communities.”
Yvette Ishimwe (born 1996) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On what inspired her to found Iriba Water Group. Interview: Rwanda's Yvette Ishimwe - Cartier Women's Initiative Impact Awardee 2025 The New African Woman (July 4, 2025)
“I haven't just seen the impact of communities in my life but in the lives of so many people so it is very important. That is why I am motivated to pay it forward by building developer communities which would, in turn, help other people join the tech world and scale through faster. Asikpo on her motivation for building tech communities”
Edidiong Asikpo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Creating a platform that will make women’s lives easier. My mum faced so many barriers juggling her work and family life. I look at all she’s managed to build, and I wonder how much easier things could have been if she didn’t have to deal with severe period pain or hormonal acne every month.”
Sharndré Kushor wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is about connecting with people and how can we do that? These 3 abstractions connect every human being on earth love, time, and death. We long for love, we wish we had more time, and we fear death.” I think if we all lived our lives with this in mind, we would move forward in so many ways.”
Heidi M. Petersen (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I set up the Mary Dinah Foundation 5 years ago and that has been amazingly satisfying. I have started very successful companies in the past that generated significant income but creating a channel whereby I could make a change and impact the lives of others is bigger than anything I have ever experienced before. It still is my greatest high point in life.”
Mary Dinah wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The support has been overwhelming. I believe this has changed my life and also impacted many lives in my home country.”
Letsile Tebogo (born 2003) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our third reunion, in 1986, was inspiring. After a banquet, each shipmate gave an account of his life after he left the Barb. The first one to speak reminded us all that we had been close friends in the Barb, whether officers or enlisted men. Each man had been born again by the Barb and love. She enriched our lives and gave us our philosophy: We don't have problems, just solutions.”
Eugene B. Fluckey (1913–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In life, you get a lot of platforms to do good, to reach for your dreams and have a positive influence on other people’s lives as well. Whether it’s through education, being a doctor, or others have the platform of being good at sports. That way, I’ve received the platform of Miss World and I’m going to use it to do good”
Rolene Strauss (born 1992) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Second Chance That Changed Her World,2014
“I would like to glorify my heavenly Father for making this dream come true. God has carried me and prepared me for such a time through every season of my life, and it is through His faithfulness that I am here. With every step that I took, I had peace in knowing that He was there with me and I know that He will continue to guide me to touch as many lives as possible in this new chapter”
Ndavi Nokeri (born 1999) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Netball has really changed my life drastically and I’m hoping that someone will follow in my footsteps. To take the journey that I’ve taken by using sports to change their lives.”
Precious Mthembu (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The collaboration is a wonderful declaration song that we did and I’m so grateful to God for it because it really speaks of what is about to happen in my life and in the lives of those who have been waiting on the fulfilment of the promises of God”
Michael Mahendere (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want my story to make that change and make people see that if they put the time into it, we will be able to change players’ lives and have them to face life in different ways then I went through.”
Jennifer Cudjoe (born 1994) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jennifer Cudjoe: "I now feel like we can break that cycle" FIFPRO (1 December 2021)
“I want this to be a forum where the best and brightest work together in an operating environment that embraces advanced knowledge and technologies to improve lives, including the life of our planet!”
Viola Fletcher (1914–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that real change can only happen in our life by focusing and remembering the ABCs that can bring about a meaningful change. This would be our Attitudes that influence our Behavior which reflects our Character. Real change, especially in handling money, can happen only when we change the ABCs in our lives first.”
Liwayway Vinzons-Chato (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The process of carrying "the miracle of life" has taught me "to love my flaws—growing, darkening areas of my body, stretch marks, break outs and everything else. It is not a requirement to look perfect during this time of our lives and IT'S OKAY.”
Camille Prats (born 1985) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: . " Camille Prats says pregnancy does not require women to look perfect". "PEP.ph". By FM Ganal, 12 June 2019.
“The world often calls a man fortunate who has many fortunes. As always, the world is mistaken. Fortunate is the man who can find his own being reflected in the being of another spirit, for he truly lives his life to the full. (p. 4)”
Giuseppe Capograssi (1889–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Their [politicians] words and phrases are skillfully chosen to keep us complacent and confident in our fairly comfortable world. We don’t usually notice this because ours is a world in which whether or not the words we are offered are true rarely makes much difference to our lives. But, out in the real world, the way words are used or misused can make the difference between life and death.”
Oliver Postgate (1925–2008) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: History Is Bunk! (2005)
“The primacy of personal freedom – writes Don Gianni, referring to the social order – indicates the transcendence of the person over society... this idea is a Christian legacy: it is divine life communicated to the person by the Incarnate Word, Jesus Christ: every person has become an end in relation to society because of the primacy of Jesus Christ as a person who lives in other people. (p. 136)”
Gianni Baget Bozzo (1925–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yung hirap at sakit na nararanasan nila na hindi ipinapakita pag tumatawag sila sa mahal nila sa buhay. Akala mo laging masaya at masarap ang buhay nila pero kabaligtaran lahat. (The hardships that they face and do not show when talking to their loved ones in life; you think their lives are always happy and good but it is the opposite of all of that.)”
Ritz Azul (born 1994) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ritz Azul recounts living away from parents, salutes OFWs for their sacrifices Inquirer.Net, 4 December 2019.
“I don’t know if we have many lives or if I will be reincarnated into a next life, but I really do think that when you die, it doesn’t stop.”
Marion Cotillard (born 1975) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kidman, Nicole (15 July 2010). "Marion Cotillard". Interview Magazine.
“I have the opportunity to let you know from now on, without betraying any secrets, that there is in the Drôme a holy woman who lives a contemplative life as a victim of love, Marthe Robin. I went to visit her at the Pope's personal request, to judge the theological expression of her faith. I was amazed by it and wrote it to the Pope.”
Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not sure if books change lives but I am sure that books have inspired my life and fulfilled the voids in it. My first girlfriend, I found her between the covers and more than anything else I discovered and understood this self far better. If any of these count as consequences of reading a book, the book will be Bogobe bja Tswitswi.”
Kgebetli Moele (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is unacceptable that innocent Nigerians continue to be slaughtered in their communities while others are abducted on our highways. The primary responsibility of any government is the protection of lives and property. Every life lost is one too many, and every attack that goes unanswered only emboldens the perpetrators.”
David Mark (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fungi are the underworld of plant life, that lives clandestinely, by its unconscious wits, taking to cover in unfavorable times, rioting at another.”
Donald C. Peattie (1898–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I make things that reflect my life and sometimes I make things that reflect other people’s lives and other stories and anecdotes”
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dreams are as important to me as waking life. We spend about half of our lives asleep so there is almost a reality that exists outside this present reality that we experience.”
Abba Makama first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Abba T. Makama, Senses of Cinema, 2019.
“For a while, we changed things, ... I know that sounds lofty and a bit bulls... – films don't really change anyone's life – but we do know that that film in that country did affect people's lives. ... Another generation comes along and repeats the mistakes of their parents and on it goes. Now, we have a methamphetamine epidemic. Before it was alcohol.”
Lee Tamahori (1950–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I owe basketball, I'm forever indebted to it. It engulfed my life for the positive. The game has gotten more of my time than my friends and my family. I feel like on a smaller or larger scale, it can impact my players' lives in some kind of way.”
Dawn Staley (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Mark Twain (misattributed) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Not by Twain, but from Edward Abbey's A Voice Crying In The Wilderness (1989).
“Whoso lives the holiest life Is fittest far to die.”
Margaret Junkin Preston (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who provides life provides also a living.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Struggle is everywhere, without struggle no life, and if we want to go on living, we must be ready for further struggles.”
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A. J. P. Taylor, Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman (1955), p. 203
“Dear reader, do you know the living God? Is He, in Jesus, your Father? Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds, and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.”
George Müller (1805–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, 'Who is living my life for me?' Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong?”
Vernon Howard (1918–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“IF YOU LOOK at life's totality you will notice that every living thing exists for something else. The failure to give and receive is followed first by unconsciousness and then death.”
Barry Long (1926–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you're looking at the Bible for a guide to living a compassionate, wise and humane life, well, frankly you've got more chance of finding a lap dancing club in Mecca or a virgin in a catholic orphanage.”
Pat Condell (born 1949) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What have I got against religion?" (4 March 2007)
“Yes, we are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously. . . .”
Sukarno (1901–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I believe that God is overhead; And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.”
Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My lovely living boy, My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) said by 1590 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Du Bartas
“Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.”
J. B. Priestley (1894–1984) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Disillusioned", in The Balconinny, and Other Essays ([1929] 1969) p. 30.
“I always treated modeling as a business and I've always been very organized. From the very start, I would keep clippings of my magazine spreads and ask my agency to find out where my photo shoots were being published. I also think I had an advantage in that I was more centered and wasn't into partying and living the high life. I had fun, but I was reasonable about it!”
Heidi Klum (born 1973) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by New Weekly, ninemsn Australia, 19 April 2009
“The major sweep of this book's living is too often marred by qualifying. It is hedged about with ifs and buts and if onlys and howevers, excuses for a life that is about to shut its covers for the last time and then crumple into dust in an unseen and never-to-be-remembered library.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are the fed up grass roots movement of goose flesh, hell bent on living this one life by the way we feel our spines, saying what we mean, refusing to allow the few to preach to the many when it is the many who need to be hearing eachother.”
Buddy Wakefield (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source