What's your motto?

[Shadow of the Sun]

One that fits me very well: "I don't have an inner child, I have an outer adult."

[Ceska]

I have many, but this one always stays important for me: "The intention has no impact on an action, only on the reaction."

[Lu-Tzao]

I have several, one is borrowed from the discworld novels

"Stercus Stercus Morteus Sum" (Not going to translate it)

"Wasn't me"

and "Vraiment monsieur l'argent, il visage etait comme ca quand nous recontre" That is probably horrible grammar, but it means "Honestly officer, his face was like that when I met him" (roughly anyway)

[starwoof]

Mine is probably something like:

"Quit whining, you'll live."

My dad used to tell me that all the time when I got hurt when I was a kid. Basically it means quit dwelling on the past or what you can't change and get on with your life. Thats not how he meant it but thats how I take it now.

[Green Bean]

"Never trust a cat with orange eyebrows"

[wowy319]

Don't tempt fate.

[Daishi]

Heh. My motto is χρήματα is ευτυχία , και ευτυχία is χρήματα. Thank god for google. The google part isn't my motto, its the Greek part. I just said thank god for google as a hint.

[Mr. Moon]

"Be who you are and say what you feel
becuase those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind."

Dr. Seuss said that. I think it's good advice.

Why do today what you can do tommarow?
Work may pay off in the futer, but lazieness pays off now.

"Give me liberty or give me death!" Can't remember who said that, but I'm sure he was pretty important.

[Jack Squat]

"Give me liberty or give me death!" Can't remember who said that, but I'm sure he was pretty important.

The history buff in me just died. Patrick Henry said that. I'll spare you all the boring details of when and where and just say it was before we made England leave us alone.

[Athenodorus]

Tenacity. Audacity. Empathy.

...assuming I ever manage to live up to those ideals. Which I don't quite yet. :P

[Xanra]

"if you think you can, or you think you cant, you are right."

[Sisqui]

Don't hate others for succeeding at what you failed even to try.....

[Zephra]

χρήματα is ευτυχία , και ευτυχία is χρήματα

money is happiness, and happiness is money

that's not mine, i just translated it.

[Ganjuu-kun]

"No matter where you are, doom will always find you"

[Telonius]

Ancora imparo.

[Artega]

Nothing to be done. (first line of Waiting for Godot)

[Om]

F*ck 'em if they can't take a joke

[seventhsamurai]

CYNIC: n A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

[Tarnag40k]

Don't look back....




...you might hit something.

[Charity]

When life gives you lemons.
Give the lemons to charity.

What am I gonna do with em?
Open a market stall?

[Mr. Moon]

The history buff in me just died. Patrick Henry said that. I'll spare you all the boring details of when and where and just say it was before we made England leave us alone.

Nyeah-ha. Sorry. I don't know much about American history.

What am I gonna do with em?
Open a market stall?

Actualy, that's pretty much what I thought when I saw that. "charity or Charity?"

I just heard a real funny one. "You will never find true happieness. What'cha gonna do, cry about it?" - Wierd Al.

[Sewer_Bandito]

I have lots...

Just because you're an idiot, it doesn't mean you have to go out and prove it.

Only boring people think life is boring.

and...

When life gives you crap, make crap golems.

[Syka]

"Why regret my past when it has made me what I am today?"

"I would rather make a mistake than regret not taking a chance."

"As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back. "

"You can't have slaughter without laughter."

"Thousand nations of the Persian Empire descend upon you...Our arrows shall blot out the sun." --"Then we'll fight in the shade!"

The first two are mine, the third I stole from a friends Facebook, and the fourth is something I said recently in class that had my friends cracking up. The last is from the movie 300 adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Frank Miller. I like it because it basically says I'm not going to tuck tail and run. You need to stand for what you believe in, regardless of how hard it might be.

[Amotis]

It also means prepare Protection From Arrows every day.

[Shadow of the Sun]

The third one is an actual quote from the Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae- one of the Spartans said it when the Persians were mouthing off.

The Spartans were badass.

[Carolyn]

Mine is a quote from Terry Pratchett's novel 'The Wee Free Men'

If you trust in yourself, and believe in you dreams, and follow your star...you will still get beaten by people who did the actual work.

[Maryring]

I have several ones that I use depending on my current state of being. The ones I use most often are...

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall."
"My dreams are my hopes are my life."
"Smile to the world and the world smiles back."

Or the one I am currently using...

"A friend is a stranger you've never met."

[JediNite]

"Be the person you wish you were - someone might believe it."

"Judge yourself on the regard of your friends."

"Give 'til it hurts, then keep giving."

"I will not go quiet into that good night."

"When the going gets tough, someone hold my rodent."

"Love is worth it."

These are what I live by. Especially number five.
-Jedi

[Rex Idiotarum]

"Life sucks, Rock Falls, then Everyone Dies"

[Adygias]

If God had meant for us to do things ahead of time, He wouldn't have given us the last minute.

Life is like a grapefruit. It's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outsie. wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half of one for breakfast.

When I have a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothes.

Nothing is yet in its true form.

What is beautiful is not for us to decide.

Beware of the "straight truth," because no story is straight on its own. The truth, that which really is, can never be straightened.

And to fulfill my history/language requirements:
MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN

(Hmm, the forum won't let you use Aramaic text. I wonder if this is the first time this has come up? Probably not, 'round these parts... )