Best Breath Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“No matter what you face, you've got to believe you can overcome it until your last day - your last breath.”

“Sometimes when you're very stressed, you just need to be talked down - my son Jake is my talk-down person. He always tells me to take a breath, we'll work it out and it'll be fine.”

“I want to get better so bad to the point where, sometimes, I have to even step back and take a deep breath and kind of relax.”

“I'm a confident guy. But it's surreal to hear my name called in the same breath as Randy Moss, my favorite receiver. That's the cool thing about having some success.”

“I won't give up until my last breath.”

“Till the last breath of mine I can't really dig away Mahadev' from me. But as an actor I have to play other roles and move on.”

“My husband has taught me to take a deep breath and chill and enjoy things.”

“On the highline my thoughts are simple and clear. Fundamental needs shine through the mental clutter. I focus completely on my breath, my connection with the line, and making it safely to the other side.”

“Music is my passion. I love music and I have a wish that my last breath be on stage.”

“I've lived kind of a sad-happy life. It's like, every time you take a breath, it's heavy, but on the outside you're like a clown family traveling along the universe.”

“I was raised with the idea that I was born dying. That with every breath you take, you get closer to your last. It's something I've always known.”

“Being still may sound a little crazy to some, but I really encourage people to simply listen to your own breath and unclog all those thoughts running through your mind. It's important to take a step back.”

“Meditation is essential. I try to start each morning with a focus on the breath and three things I'm grateful for.”

“Before I step in the Octagon, I pray one last time and take a huge deep breath, and then I'm home.”

“In 2013, I had to do 'The Wright Stuff' on about an hour's sleep. I was asked, 'What do you make of the situation in Mali?' and I said, 'Well, I've not seen the film but I know the dog dies in the end.' They were talking about the civil war, and the whole audience took an inward breath. I thought, 'Should I not have revealed the end of the film?'”

“It's an honor to be even mentioned in the same breath as Walter Payton.”

“I live for the pressure, I live for the moments when I'm deep in the match, out of breath, hurt and feel like throwing up. It's in those moments that I push through, I keep punching, I keep going forward, because no matter what, I will never stop.”

“I know one day I will take my last breath, and if I am in His 'house' when that happens, I pray my family can find a bit of solace and peace knowing that is where I saw Jesus for the first time.”

“Guns N' Roses is a weighty subject, but in the same breath, I don't take it that seriously.”

“To be mentioned in the same breath as people I admire means everything to me.”

“In life, you are struck by the importance of presence, of the small moments of meaning, the miracle of your child's breath, the feelings of deep human connection. When you are thinking about technology, your mind is not on all of that.”

“I don't have the slightest idea of how to do vocal exercises or scales or anything like that, but I did always know to breath properly from the stomach. I'm a pop singer and never really felt I needed more.”

“I wouldn't be surprised if this album cycle for 'Cardiology' is the funnest couple years we ever see. We've made all of our mistakes; we've kind of learned. Now we know what to avoid, we know what to embrace, we know how to take a deep breath and enjoy the moment.”

“Meditation has taught me to be in the present moment and observe the present moment at the same time. Just breathe, follow your breath, and your intuition can take you from there.”

“The first few years I was competing, I'd ride so well in practice, then choke and fall in competition. Now I take a deep breath and say, 'Look at me. I'm outside. I'm doing what I love.' Still, nothing's matched the pressure I felt standing at the top of the halfpipe for the first time at the Olympics.”

“I try to swim once or twice a week. I basically hold my breath for, like, 12 laps, down and back, to kind of expand my lungs so that I can have better breathing when it comes down to two-minute drives where you've got to play a lot of plays all in one series and you're hurrying up.”

“The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.”

“Everybody kind of looks to comedians and comedy for relief and a fresh breath about what is going on in the world.”

“I will fight to the last breath, even though my family cowers in terror in the palace.”

“When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.”

“There is something about hitting 40, the half- way mark that is heady and liberating, it runs away with you and you reach your 50s out of breath and wondering, 'Where was I going with that?'”

“When you get older, you are told constantly that you should be there for your parents' deaths, otherwise you will regret it. But what we are not prepared for is a sudden, brutal death that you are there for, with medical people shouting and things bleeping and your parent gasping for breath.”

“Any time I'm having difficulty, I focus on the breath, on relaxed breathing.”

“I am very sure that I won't be acting till my last breath, but I will do something graceful that suits me.”

“If you're throwing punches or exerting energy but you're not breathing, you're holding your breath. That actually saps your strength, it saps your stamina.”

“I lost weight to be healthy, not for any other reason. I never felt bad about being overweight, but I did start to feel tired and out of breath and I knew I needed to do something.”

“If there's anything I can promise is that I'm gonna paint till the last breath.”

“At some point I got sick of people calling me Bonzo junior. But now that I'm older and wiser, I'm just honored to be mentioned in the same breath.”

“When you're just a breath away from North Korea, it boggles your mind that that exists, or that something like the Khmer Rouge ever existed. You wonder how we allow that to happen as human beings; how we allow the human condition to get so depraved and desperate.”

“All too often, I will see people on the left slam Trump for the way he treats or talks about other people. Then those same individuals - sometimes even in the same breath - will go on to say even worse things about the people who voted for him.”

“I feel unbelievably honored to be, you know, with Marie Curie and Goeppert Mayer. It's like, how can I be in the same breath as those three?”

“Love is one of the most powerful and most dangerous things I've ever encountered and, within the same breath, one of the most beautiful and relevant journeys of my life.”

“The four and half crore of people in Odisha are my family, and I will serve them till the last breath.”

“Paying attention to my breath makes me happy to be alive. And that really grounds me during a performance.”

“I've known John Toshack a long, long time because I grew up with his son Cameron. If he was English, there is no doubt that he would be mentioned in the same breath as someone like Terry Venables.”

“I always wanted to be mentioned in the same breath as all of the great wrestlers.”

“Your first kid, you're so scared that they're going to die that you sneak into their room, and you put your finger under their nose to feel breath. And the second kid, you might check in on them once in a while to make sure they're OK.”

“The physicality of a production needs evolution and breath.”

“Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you can't stop, and you can listen for four hours, five hours, six hours, and then you are like in his mystical hands of his music. He's such a great poet of music.”

“We always joke that our road crew will have to wheelchair us up onstage soon because this is what we do. This is what we love to do. This is what God put us on earth to do until the day we take our last breath.”

“I strive to be my best every time I go out, and that's very stressful. After a while of doing that... it's nice to just take a deep breath, sit on a tractor.”

“I noticed every time I felt overwhelmed, I would hold my breath. I had to learn to stop, relax, and take long deep breaths, and within seconds I would feel more clear and ready to deal with the situation in a more loving way.”

“Even if you had the wherewithal to embarrass a reporter, there was no mechanism to do it. And in most cases, you might as well save your breath because the reporter had no shame anyway.”

“If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.”

“We often speak of domestic terrorism and hate crimes in the same breath, and there is a fine line between the two, and certainly overlap in some cases.”

“Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath.”

“Norah Jones is a breath of fresh air. Norah Jones can sing and play. She's got some talent. I was totally ecstatic that that girl got noticed, because she's wonderful.”

“About the only thing that'll stay with you that you can trust all your life is your breath. Your breath will be there at the very last, because when it stops, you will stop.”

“I don't know anybody that has a teenage son or daughter who at some point hasn't been like, 'God, I hate them' just under their breath. It's not meant to be literal. It's funny.”

“What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.”

“This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.”

“Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.”

“I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.”

“God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.”

“We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.”

“It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime.”

“I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.”

“North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.”

“We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.”

“It's important for people to recognize that they shouldn't ignore symptoms like shortness of breath or a cough that won't go away, because these may be signs of COPD.”

“A lot of people have a cough that doesn't go away, or go up and down stairs and get shortness of breath, and they don't think about COPD. They could have a problem, though, and catching it in the beginning stages is crucial.”

“Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.”

“The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.”

“People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.”

“When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go!”

“I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.”

“Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.”

“I'm for the fracking. I think it's an opportunity for Ohio to really get a lot of jobs. But we have to do it right. We have to really take a deep breath, do it right, make sure the public is protected, make sure our land is protected.”

“At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath.”

“When you do one movie at a time, if one goes crazy and becomes successful, your life changes. But you can step back and catch your breath.”

“I take a breath when I have to.”

“I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life.”

“During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.”

“My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.”

“I'll be working till by last breath and would prefer to die on sets only.”

“I don't push my voice; I try to keep a good technique, a natural way of singing, to sing from the breath, which is the main thing.”

“The world's pretty big. I have to see everything, do everything, eat everything. You'll never be as young as you are right now, so while your legs still work, while you still have the breath in your lungs, go. At the end of our lives, we only regret the things we didn't do.”

“In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.”

“Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.”

“Yoga is not a practice - the word 'yoga' means union. It does not mean standing on your head, twisting your body, or holding your breath. Yoga means to know the union of life. When you experience everything as a part of yourself, you are in yoga.”

“I waited for my daughter, Billie, to come to me with her troubles - but I'm glad I didn't hold my breath.”

“I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.”

“When you're left on the floor of a hospital gasping for breath, or you can't get your kid a school place, the simplest things are your idea of radical.”

“I've often thought that Obama should come out in favor of oxygen, just to see how many right-wingers keel over from holding their breath for too long.”

“I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.”

“We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.”

“There's no doubt that 'Breath of the Wild' is the Switch game I've put the most time into.”

“I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.”

“Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath.”

“When I have more of a pitch-by-pitch mentality instead of an at-bat to an at-bat mentality, things can speed up on you a little bit. To be able to take a deep breath and know that if I make this pitch right here is all I really can control in the moment, and then be able to just kind of go from there.”