Do you have a motto?

Two wonderful mottos and a couple of great Bond films to boot. :smiley:

Life is way too short.

insert cliche of your choosing here

Occasionally amended to “Same sh*t, different day” and “I tried and it still didn’t work!”

Remarkably, can still be applied to the current Bond films.

Very nice ones Dudley and Moving Finger, but a new rule should go in effect that any future Latin language fanatics need to translate what they are writing, otherwise what good is it to read? I humbly submit: If not for Love, then what?

… I’ve got no idea where I stole that from, but if I did indeed make it up, I’m claiming it as such :smiley:

True, true. Mottoes for the ages, I have.

Q - tip - quit taking it personally. Being a teacher and a nurse, I get a lot of angry people trying to blame me for stuff. So I Q-tip it whenever I can.

“I’ll sleep when I’m dead” - (miss you, Warren)

“Trust but verify.” - Ronald Reagan

“Better than a kick in the crotch.” - Me

“Resistence is futile!” - Some Vogon

“Get out of the road if you wanna grow old.” - Roger Waters

Mine is all-purpose, I can’t think of a single situation it won’t fit:

“Don’t fuck up”

Can’t remember where I read this but I’ve always liked

Actions speak louder than accents
Then there’s a passage in To Kill A MockingBird where Atticus explains to the children why he is taking the action he is, too long to be a motto it boils down to Shakepeare’s

To thine own self be true

I think that’s fake Latin.

Some is good.
More is better.
Too much is just enough.

That’s the Shepard Prayer. The Alan Shepard Prayer.

My high school anthro teacher once told us “When you stop learning new things, you’re as good as dead.” I think that was a little harsh, but it’s still something I think of when I face a particularly difficult challenge.

I figured out a more specific motto this morning. I had an epiphany when I got up to run at 4:40 a.m. I started to wonder what the hell I was doing getting up that early only to go run (I used to get up at 4 a.m. on Saturdays to run, but that was four or five years ago). Anyway, that motto is: “Don’t bother to ask why you’re doing this because if you wonder why, you’ll figure out a reason not to do it.” For me, it really only applies to running early in the morning, but not taking the time to wonder what the hell I was doing leaving the house at 4:45 sure helped me get my workout done. :slight_smile:

“Dig deep. Use quicklime.”

Words to live by.