What Is Your Personal Motto?

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mawnansmiff

Lifer
Oct 14, 2015
7,373
7,267
Sunny Cornwall, UK.
"fac recte, nil time"
Do Right, Fear Nothing.
My old school (King Edward VII, Sheffield) motto.
"Pour y parvenir"
Strive To Attain
My second school (Lady Manners, Bakewell) motto.
Regards,
Jay.

 

jdhayes

Starting to Get Obsessed
Jan 15, 2016
112
2
I'm ok with it, until I'm not.
Most of the time pertaining to my BS tolerance and drama.

 

bryguysc

Can't Leave
Feb 4, 2015
354
20
"Everything will be okay, in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."
I've been saying this for at least 20 years, and recently found out that Ed Sheeran stole my motto! :x

But actually, both Paulo Coelho and John Lennon were attributed with saying it in the 60's (well before I was born). Perhaps I heard it when I was young, and it stuck in the back of my mind.

Regardless, I still like it.
In everyday conversation, I tend to distill it down to something like "It'll work out," or "It'll be fine," or "She'll buff out," etc. Same sentiment.

 

tmb152

Can't Leave
Apr 26, 2016
392
5
The Happiest People Don't Have The Best Of Everything - They Just Make The Best Of Everything They Have.
So Dick Clark finally dies on the year we're not supposed to have a New Year's Eve. Well played Mayans........., well played.
A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!
“Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: 'All men should have so much.'” - Phelps Adams
“The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.” – Daniel Webster
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." Mark Twain
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." – Groucho
"Ineptocracy" A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
IF: You cannot be trusted with the right to own a gun, THEN: You cannot be trusted with the right to vote.
We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

~Oscar Ameringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."
I offered my opponents a deal: "if they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them".

~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952
“The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.” – Adolf Hitler
"Ever notice that if conservatives don't like something they just don't do it or do something else instead, and let others decide for themselves. But if a liberal doesn't like something, he wants to make sure that nobody else can do it at all."--- Harv Gryttenholm
"The difference between stupid and genius is that genius has its limits."--- Albert Einstein

 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
41,210
60,427
Such is life.
Not really; I don't have a motto, but that's a saying I enjoy saying when appropriate.

 
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