10 Life Quotes That Will Give You Some Perspective

Antonio Martina
5 min readAug 28, 2018
  1. “Excellence is not being the best. It is doing your best.”
    Get up, show up, and never give up. The best remedy to regret is doing everything you can do on a constant basis, without ever trying to compare your life to other’s. When you engage in that kind of foolishness, you’ll end up feeling bitter, because, by out natural tendencies, we’ll never make such comparisons fair and equal. Take advantage of your limitless potential by setting out specific and ambitious goals and go out there smashing them.
  2. “Life is a journey, not a destination.”
    Are you still convinced that happiness will come to you someday?
    Unfortunately, someday is not a day at all, and if you keep postponing your eagerness and determination to live a better life, personal fulfillment will forever stay a dream. Enjoy every step you take, every decision you make and every small thing that gets you closer to appreciate life. There’s a reason if “enjoy the process” is one of the most cliché sayings of all times.
  3. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    How many times did we try to fit ourselves into some predetermined path in life, just because someone else steered us that way?
    Growing up we were told we could have been everything we wanted to.
    What happened then?
    At some point, the script kicks in. All of a sudden we stop fantasizing…

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Antonio Martina

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”