What Is Your Favourite Motto / Quotation / Mantra?

My favourite saying is: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

My most helpful one is something a mentor once told me regarding stress:

"Whatever you do, don't do nothing."

This helps me when I have a big stack of things to do and I feel paralyzed and overwhelmed. This advice helps me to slowly eliminate my stack or at worst, keep it from piling up even more. By keeping this consistency, I am active until I can eliminate it.

Every day above 6ft is a good one.

Take care of your body as if you will live forever - take care of your soul as if you will die tomorrow.

One of the best things that was told to me a long time ago is: "pick your battles wisely".

I like - "Arise, Awake and Stop not till your goal is reached" By Swami Vivekananda.

I like two mottoes as follows:
Different doesn't make it wrong, it just makes it different.
You can never unsay anything, choose all your words wisely.

Simply put, "Knowledge is power". Then on the flip side of the coin, "Ignorance is bliss", if you don't know what this means, here you go, if you're ignorant of something, say how to use the dictionary, this is easy for you to stay away from, and thus you can remain ignorant of all of the information it contains.

But once you open the dictionary, and start to learn from it, you are less and less ignorant, and are learning how to use the dictionary. Once you have all that information collected, you aren't ignorant of things like you once were, so now there is a whole wealth of information, and you know things aren't so easy out there in the world or universe.
There are indeed things out there that require attention, things that need to be done to make things better or easier, problem solving. After learning this, you can then sit back for a second, and wish that you didn't know what you know, because it was easier then, life was blissful.

"two sorts of people have never enough, one who thurst for knowledgle and one who lust after riches."
I like this quotation very much and it is a fact, we all are here to gain and give the knowlege and we are all not satisfied wd our present status. We all want more money, am I right?

Here's another one, "Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can" - Danny Kaye

Miy favourite motto is "A mistake on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."

When you eliminate the impossible, however improbable, whatever remains must be the truth.

I love this quote, because basically it tells you to trust your instincts, if you suspect something no matter how small it is it must be what you fear the most. It's a smarter way of saying if you just trust your own judgement, you won't go wrong.

My favorite motto is: Live, Laugh, Love.

Every day in every way,I am getting better and better.

"You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind."...old Irish proverb

Mine is, "God gives you only what he knows you can handle - just trust in him."

This mantra/poem was my favorite for some time.

Thank God for dirty dishes
they have a tale to tell
while others may go hungry
we're eating very well
with food and health and happiness
I wouldn't want to fuss
for by this stack of evidence,
God's been good to us.

"Never, never, never give up." -Grand Uncle Winston.

It's not what you say but, how you say it.

Today I am the master of my emotions.

My favourite motto is"Just do you best and God will do the rest."

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom yo know the difference.

God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into those I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.

Not a direct quote-- the reasonable man adapts to the world around him, the unreasonable man forces the world around him to adapt, so all progress for humanity was made by unreasonable man--George Bernard Shaw.

" Do not ever look down upon someone unless you are giving them a hand up" I heard this some where and it has stuck because it is something I would think and practice.

If what you are doing doesn't feel right then don't do it. Guilt is a terrible thing to live with.

"Life is short so eat desert first". I also like "Directions are what you read to find out what went wrong".

"L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!" Fredrick The Great.

"Fortune is a god that rules men's lives." Aeschylus

One more: Remember that amateurs built the Ark ,professional the Titanic.

One favorite "motto" for me is something my mom said to me years ago and is one that I try to always use as a "guide" in my actions and choices.

"REGRET IS SO HARD TO LIVE WITH."

My moto is " Whatever you do is do authoritatively. Give 100 % effort in what ever you do.

I think life is a continues struggle for happiness and discarding misery and whenever I find myself in difficulty and fail to cope with circumstances, I repeat the following quotation
"I will fight against life till success!"

If it is not broke, don't try and fix it.
It's not what you say but, how you say it.

I like- Never do the things that you don't want others do to you. This motto is my phylosophy of how I behave myself.

Show me how to live Just for today

Where we love is truly home; home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."
- H.H.D.L. XIV

"We have never made an effort to understand what is greatness in men and how to recognize it. We have come to hold, in a kind of mawkish stupor, that greatness is to be gauged by self-sacrifice. Self-sacrifice, we drool, is the ultimate virtue. Let's stop and think for a moment. Is sacrifice a virtue? Can a man sacrifice his integrity? His honor? His freedom? His ideal? His conviction? The honesty of his feelings? The independence of his thought? But these are a man's supreme possessions. Anything he gives up for them is not a sacrifice but an easy bargain. They, however, are above sacrifice to any cause or consideration whatsoever. Should we not, then, stop preaching dangerous and vicious nonsense? Self sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed It is the unsacrified self that we must respect in man above all."
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

Motto： You love what you do, then you can get what you love.

And Time is like a river,you cannot touch the same water twice,because the flow has passed will never pass again.

And don't let somebody become a priority in your life when you are just a opinion in their life,relationship works best when it is in balance.

If you don't really want the answer, don't ask the question.

'Land of the Free, Because of the Brave'.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Everything takes longer than you think.

Do your best every day. This is all I have to say!

And this too shall pass!

Mine is "CARPE DIEM" Enjoy the moment!...because you never know...

We only appear small because we are on our knees, let us rise. James Connolly a famous Irish republican icon.

I like "Do as you would be done by" and also "All things must pass".

I use this every day. " If you don't have the time to do it right the first time, when will you find the time to do it over?"

Dreams are not what you see in sleep, dreams are the things which does n`t let you sleep.

I love my job, I love my job, I love my job... OR

Happy place, happy place, let's all try to find that happy place...

This is one of many favorites for me:
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln

Less said, more mended. I learned that one from Padraig and I really like it.

"Never frown, you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile" it makes me happy to know that!^^ I like it! I don't know why, but I have ever since I first heard it, and, "It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you're not" it is me.... All the way, I will change for no one!^^

When it is Spring time in the Rockies It's 40 Below!!

"Almost" isn't good enough, what if you "almost" got your paycheck.

There is no art to find mind's construction in the face of man.

"Fortune is a god that rules men's lives." Aeschylus

Guilty dog always speaks first.

Always believe in yourself

Don't blame others for your mistakes

Treat others as you want to be treated!

I think this is true- "Any fuse or arguement is boiled down to jealousy".

I will fight against life, I will fight against life, I will fight against life.

'If you don't live by justice, then you will surely fail, at the end of all this woe, justice will prevail.' That is my motto for live. I made it up myself and it is a true and helpful saying.

Every normal man must be tempted to spit on his hands hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.

In everything, moderation, including moderation.

My favourite mantra is "dare to dream".it makes me optimistic and gives me power in my loneliness as I find my dreams as my road shower in dark.when I think that I have a beautiful power of dreaming which many people have not,then I feel a holly strength in my heart which helps me to work.

Keep smiling always... Whatever the situation is ...!

Personally I like
"He who stands for nothing will fall for anything"
and

"True knowledge lies in knowing that you know nothing"

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H.L. Mencken

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. – Herbert Spencer

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both. – James Dale Davidson

The welfare state reduces a citizen to a client, subordinates them to a bureaucrat, and subjects them to rules that are anti-work, anti-family, anti-opportunity and anti-property … Humans forced to suffer under such anti-human rules naturally develop pathologies. The evening news is the natural result of the welfare state. – Unknown

Don't live by others live by god

I have so many favorite quotes, my favorite is simply "Stay strong."  Others include, "Keep your head up. Make them wonder how you're still smiling."

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."

"Stay strong. A rainbow never comes without a little rain."

"Shoot me down, but I won't fall. I am titanium."

I have looked through all the posts and i found some really good ones. I have no idea who said the motto I like, but it is ' everything what is done has its own reason' It is really true. Have you ever thought about 'what if..." and different was it now?

Viam supervadet vadens.