Personal Mottos

[Shorty]

or, words you live by.

Lately I've been trying to adopt "slow down." I speak before I think, I jump to conclusions, I go through motions without waiting to think about consequences or end results or I'm just plain sloppy and trying to get through something as quickly as possible so it comes out wrecked.

What are your personal mottos, or something that should be your personal motto/words you live by?

[Jinx]

I got my personal motto from a Fiona Apple song:

Be kind to me, or treat me mean--I make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

[Quindiana Jones]

I also take my motto from a song:

Get up, get on up,
Get up, get on up
Stay on the scene, get on up
Like a sex machine, get on up

Helped me through a lot of hard times.

[Shorty]

Hard times, eh? :colbert:

[Laddy]

Life only sucks as much as you let it. :monster:

[Quindiana Jones]

Hard times, eh? :colbert:

Yes, such as when I overcame a crippling leg injury. :doublecolbert:

[I Don't Need A Name]

I also take my motto from a song:

Get up, get on up,
Get up, get on up
Stay on the scene, get on up
Like a sex machine, get on up

Helped me through a lot of hard times.

When I read the word 'Get' I expected the lyrics to be

Get on up when you're down,
Baby, take a good look around,
I know it's not much, but it's okay,
We'll keep on moving on anyway

I feel dirty :|

[Quindiana Jones]

Jeff, you are a disgrace.

[I Don't Need A Name]

Remove me from this world, before I decapitate myself with a sponge

[Jowy]

keep being awesome. i try to every day.

[krissy]

just the tip

[Pike]

"slow down."

I can only hear this in the Pandaren voice from WoW. I'm sorry.

[Jinx]

"slow down."

I can only hear this in the Pandaren voice from WoW. I'm sorry.

Pike's motto: "10 more minutes."

[Denmark]

When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gqYAuFvtXM)

True story.

[Clo]

Crack is whack.

[Iceglow]

"slow down."

I can only hear this in the Pandaren voice from WoW. I'm sorry.

Pike's motto: "10 more minutes."

More like "10 more turns"

My own personal motto could be seen as one of 2 things, both strike similar chords in me but one is a little too long to be called a motto even if it is going to be my first ever tattoo. The first is 3 lines from a song by Rise Against, pretty much everyone who knows me is going to know this already but for those who don't and for my post to make sense:


We've all been sorry,
we've all been hurt
but how we survive is what makes us who we are

The second is a speech given by Sir Winston Churchill in his later years, it was delivered to new students at Oxford and is probably remarkable for being one of the shortest speeches delivered by any politician or former world leader at any point in history (other than the memorable response of the Spartans to the Persians when they refused the Persian offer of "If" of course) the speech reads as follows:


Never, ever, ever, give up

the second is much shorter and more motto like it's certainly words you could fit in to a crest or coat of arms. The former is more like a proverb to live by.

[Faris]

Don't have a personal one since I personally find it silly to stand by one slogan or a slogan at all. I just tried to look up a family motto, but all I could find in the immediate lineage were coat of arms :(

I'll just do without.

[Tigmafuzz]

"You don't need a reason to help people." - Zidane Tribal

[Agent Proto]

Yeah, I'm about the same as Faris when it comes to mottos. I don't exactly have one, but if I did, I'm sure it'll be something like, "Eh, just let it be."

[Citizen Bleys]

Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit

[Laddy]

Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit
Prententitus Latinus Pissjokinum.

[Pike]

Yeah gonna have to agree with Steve here; my personal motto is "One More Turn".

[Chris]

I live my life by this motto:

"Circumstances cannot affect the affection."

[Night Fury]

"It's not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain"

[Bubba]

As of today...

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom"

[Slothy]

Lately I've been trying to adopt "slow down." I speak before I think, I jump to conclusions, I go through motions without waiting to think about consequences or end results or I'm just plain sloppy and trying to get through something as quickly as possible so it comes out wrecked.

Honestly, I should probably try this one but it's difficult when my brain doesn't understand the meaning of the word slow down. Simply keeping my mind from jumping haphazardly from one thought to the next as quickly as possible is difficult. Just seems to race all of the time.

As for ones I actually try to follow, lately I suppose "just keep swimming" may apply. Though it doesn't seem to be nearly as uplifting as when Dory says it.

[Goldenboko]

"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming."

[Slothy]

It does help to imagine Ellen saying it.

[Criminally Vulgar]

any hole's a hole

[Rantz]

You can never have too much lube.

[Tigmafuzz]

You can never have too much lube.

Well, you can... but it's better to have too much than too little.

Also, it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it; I guess I should start carrying around lube.

[Freya]

Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks...

[escobert]

cba

[Clo]

"Fuck bitches, get money, smoke trees."

-- Crystal

[Shoeberto]

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting their own battle." - Plato

"It does not matter how slow you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius

Shorty and Clo, you're cool. Everyone else sucks at this.

[eestlinc]

fuck it dude, let's go bowling

[Bunny]

If at first you don't succeed, give up because you're a failure.

[CimminyCricket]

Fortes fortuna juvat

And

If it smells like shit and looks like shit it is probably shit.

[blackmage_nuke]

Proper breathing is the key to firebending sucess

[Jinx]

Illegitimi non carborundum

[Shauna]

Just get drunk and do it.


But I don't really have any words that I live by. Maybe I should spend my free time hunting for some inspiring sentences.