Do you have a motto??

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  • lisaingram212
    lisaingram212 Posts: 2 Member
    2essie wrote: »
    How do you eat an elephant?............One bite at a time

    My favorite saying! It's so realistic and appilcable
  • fit_chickx
    fit_chickx Posts: 569 Member
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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,682 Member
    Not really mottos, but sayings I like ...

    "What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
    Samuel Johnson

    "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
    H. Jackson Brown, Jr.'s mother
  • ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken
    ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken Posts: 1,530 Member
    A little bot of something is better than a whole lot of nothing.
  • vikinglander
    vikinglander Posts: 1,547 Member
    edited March 2017
    shanaramadingdong wrote: »
    Do, or do not. There is no try.

    This is a good one but I like the added meaning that comes from the larger scene:

    Luke: All right, I'll give it a try.
    Yoda: No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.

    [Using the Force, Yoda effortlessly frees the X-Wing from the bog]

    Luke: I don't, I don't believe it.
    Yoda: That is why you fail.

    Here's the whole scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YkbgvRMpW0

    Another one that I like is "You can have results, or excuses...but not both."

    One I've been using since I started MFP in February 2016 is "60 is the new 40!" Obviously after my next birthday I will have to change this!

    The one I created and use often, and will keep as my own, is "Eat well, breathe deep, get strong, feel good."
  • vikinglander
    vikinglander Posts: 1,547 Member
    tabletop_joe wrote: »
    Eat; mostly plants and not too much. Stolen from a book's similar title, but it reasonates with me.

    Hey! The part that you took away will serve well, I suppose. The whole quote is "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

    Did you read 'In Defense Of Food'? There is SO much more to it. The book changed my life. (Ask me how...)
  • julielh72
    julielh72 Posts: 92 Member
    I don't but my 19 yr old daughter does "I'm here for a good time, not a long time"!! God help us.
  • ejbronte
    ejbronte Posts: 867 Member
    "And, not Or".
  • ladyreva78
    ladyreva78 Posts: 4,080 Member
    Since Yoda has already been mentioned :heart: , I'll add Confucius to the mix:

    "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
  • MimiOfTheLusciousLawn
    MimiOfTheLusciousLawn Posts: 2,212 Member
    You cannot change what you don't acknowledge - Dr. Phil
    Own it, log it, and move the f**k on - Mimiofthelusciouslawn
  • ejbronte
    ejbronte Posts: 867 Member
    ladyreva78 wrote: »
    Since Yoda has already been mentioned :heart: , I'll add Confucius to the mix:

    "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

    Almost literally the way Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium.

  • sisterlilbunny
    sisterlilbunny Posts: 686 Member
    I love your guys stuff so far. ;D I go with "Suck it up, Princess" to remind me that a.) the world doesn't revolve around me and b.) "no one" cares about my whining so get over it and do it. It sounds harsh but it does stop my inner whining.
  • GrumpyHeadmistress
    GrumpyHeadmistress Posts: 666 Member
    edited March 2017
    "Time passes anyway." I.e. don't not do something because it takes a long time to do.

    "You're not a dog, don't reward yourself with food." I always felt that one was anti-dog...
  • knittnponder
    knittnponder Posts: 1,953 Member
    I have mine tattooed on my forearm: "Fall down seven times, get back up eight..."
  • WandaVaughn
    WandaVaughn Posts: 420 Member
    "November 4th is coming!"
    (I'll hit the big 5-0. I want to face my fifties in fighting form and fabulous!)
  • BaddS4
    BaddS4 Posts: 302 Member
    If it's broke, duct tape should fix it!! ;)
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,584 Member
    Jeez, I left out the one I put on my MFP profile page: "Act as if."
  • thegoat1987
    thegoat1987 Posts: 36 Member
    ejbronte wrote: »
    ladyreva78 wrote: »
    Since Yoda has already been mentioned :heart: , I'll add Confucius to the mix:

    "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

    Almost literally the way Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium.

    All of the above.
  • HGarcia1527
    HGarcia1527 Posts: 69 Member
    I am amazing
  • kq1981
    kq1981 Posts: 1,098 Member
    Mine is "get off your fat *kitten* so one day you'll have a skinny one"
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