Top 100 Quotes About Motto
#1. My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.
P.G. Wodehouse
#2. My motto for creativity-
And remember, STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST.
Austin Kleon
#3. Continental three-dollar bill, designed by Benjamin Franklin. An eagle fights a crane, with the motto "Exitus in dubio est," "The outcome is in doubt.
Kathleen DuVal
#6. I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.
Tony Abbott
#7. Live and let live was the famous Viennese motto, which today still seems to me to be more humane than all the categorical imperatives, and it maintained itself throughout all classes.
Stefan Zweig
#8. My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.
Venus Williams
#9. Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat year after year, is 'Death to America'!
Hassan Nasrallah
#10. This is of course the Prince of Wales's motto to this day, though subsequent princes have not adopted John of Bohemia's custom of fighting while tied up and blind.
Stephen Clarke
#11. With tractors, you just don't get the feel of tilling that land. So when planting season comes around, I use a hoe. To grow one useful whore, that's the motto of my pimp farm.
M.C. Humphreys
#12. The only easy day was yesterday." [Navy SEAL motto.] I
Mike Cernovich
#13. America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.
Stephen Colbert
#14. Uh, stay fat people - That's my motto. It's no picnic!
Seth Rogen
#15. A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
Aldous Huxley
#16. No Judgment = No Expectations: That's my motto.
Arlo Guthrie
#17. When it comes to cooking now, my motto is "out with the whites!
Robin Ellis
#18. On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, "We found nothing is impossible." That should be our motto.
Christopher Reeve
#19. My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.
Alan Shearer
#20. Arthur's motto was that might should never make right. Right should make right. The duty of knights and men is to fight for those who can't fight for themselves.
-Phantom
Kinley MacGregor
#21. Of necessity we remain strangers to ourselves, we understand ourselves not, in ourselves we are bound to be mistaken, for of us holds good to all eternity the motto, "Each one is the farthest away from himself" - as far as ourselves are concerned we are not "knowers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#22. Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something.
Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.
Sophie Kinsella
#23. It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together... then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.
Becky Johnson
#25. Not the truth, but close enough. Maybe she ought to make that her life motto
Melissa Grey
#27. In times of crisis not one should be counted special. Everyone was human therefore equal to the same misery and misfortune and good luck as everyone else. What happened to the whole 'we gotta stick together' motto? When hard times came-a-knocking, people baled on good sense and decency.
Shelly Crane
#28. His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#29. Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
Anthony Trollope
#30. I believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.'
Tom Brokaw
#31. The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.
C.S. Lewis
#32. I also had another motto: Fool me once, shame on me. You won't fool me twice.
Karina Halle
#33. To deal with something unhealthy, a person needs to be as healthy as possible. That's my motto. In other words, an unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.
Haruki Murakami
#35. As counterintuitive as it sounds, 'speed to fail' should be every entrepreneur's motto. Success isn't born wholly-formed like Venus from a clamshell; it's developed through relentless trial and error.
Jay Samit
#36. Astrophysics. 'It's a super-long shot' is practically the motto of our profession.
Marko Kloos
#37. Dare to grow into your dreams and claim this as your motto: Let it be me.
Mary Kay Ash
#38. Get thee behind me, whatever you are, that's my motto.
Gary Reilly
#39. The family that catches crocs together, rocks together. The Irwin family motto.
Terri Irwin
#41. I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.
Hans Rosling
#42. The New England divine Cotton Mather puts it this way: "Exhibit as much as you can of a glorious Christ. Yea, let the motto upon your whole ministry be: Christ is all. Let others develop the pulpit fads that come and go. Let us specialize in preaching our Lord Jesus Christ.
Joel R. Beeke
#43. In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.
Gerald Durrell
#44. The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.
Oliver North
#45. My State Motto: Treat Me Good And I'll Be Your Great Friend For Life!
Timothy Pina
#46. learned early on the motto "Know thyself." I think if you have a unique point of view and stay relevant and authentic, you will make an impression. You have to be excited and passionate about your ideas to make them work.
Sophia Amoruso
#47. I contrive,"' said Prudence softly. 'Do you know, sir, you puzzle me.' 'It has ever been my motto,' the old gentleman pointed out triumphantly.
Georgette Heyer
#48. His answer to every problem, every setback was "I will work harder!" - which he had adopted as his personal motto.
George Orwell
#49. To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.
Noah Feldman
#50. The Girl Scout's motto is also mine. I fill my life with worthwhile deeds such as - well, never mind what. My duty is - to be useful. I am a friend to male animals. I am cheerful. I am thrifty and I am absolutely filthy in thought, word, and deed.
Vladimir Nabokov
#51. Charged with the mission of operating beyond the boundaries of civilization with minimal support and no communication from higher authority, they lived and often died by the motto, 'Order first, then law will follow.
Thomas W. Knowles
#52. A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.
Idries Shah
#53. [On plastic surgery:] My motto is: 'Anything that can be lifted should be lifted. Anything that falls should be caught. And try to catch any falling stuff before it hits the ground.
Joan Rivers
#55. We'll call ourselves Victorious Secret and our motto will be 'We Live to Spank You.' Duuude. Yes! I'm basically the smartest person in the world. Ever. You in? Of course you're in. Practice begins tomorrow.
Gena Showalter
#56. My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, Serve all, love one.
Honore De Balzac
#57. The administration of a great organized molar security has as its correlate a whole micro-management of petty fears, a permanent molecular insecurity, to the point that the motto of domestic policymakers might be: a macropolitics of society by and for the micropolitics of insecurity
Gilles Deleuze
#58. This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
Michel De Montaigne
#61. Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Voltaire
#62. A Satanist practices the motto, If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other! Let no wrong go unredressed.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#63. Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#64. Florida wants to change the state's motto to attract younger people. They're thinking about: More than just a great place to die.
Joan Rivers
#65. There's a motto, if you fail and fail, you come back and try again. I've had a couple of failures here in America and close calls, especially in Major Championships, and it's great to finally, finally win.
Colin Montgomerie
#66. Drake. He liked dangerous pies."
"Why did he join you?"
"Who would eat pie that could take over your life? Why risk it?"
"Focus. Why did he join you?"
"Say no to death pies. Another good motto. I'm getting a headache." p. 432
Brandon Mull
#67. Life is life, and it is infinitely better than the alternative, or so we presume, for nobody returns to dispute it. Such is my motto.
Neil Gaiman
#68. I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.
Chris Burke
#69. On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung.
Knowledge is the death of research.
Nernst's motto.
Walther Nernst
#70. A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.
George Carlin
#71. In the 1960s the planning department of the London County Council, whose unofficial motto was Finishing What the Luftwaffe Started, decided that what London really needed was a series of orbital motorways driven through its heart.
Ben Aaronovitch
#72. Ironically, in life, you sacrifice everything you love in the name of love"~ the motto of the romance novel Cupcakes and Cologne.
Doina Moulin
#73. That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.
Lee Child
#74. My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.
Kelly Wearstler
#75. Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
E. M. Forster
#76. Shapeshifter parenting motto - if your kid slits somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.
Ilona Andrews
#77. The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
Adoniram Judson
#78. I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.
Michael Jackson
#79. Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?
Terry Pratchett
#80. Why do you have your gun out?" she whispers, following right behind me. "Always be prepared," I tell her as we step inside. I close the door behind me, locking the deadbolt and the top lock. "Boy Scout motto, isn't it?" "Yes, but when they go camping, they bring extra matches. Not firearms.
Karina Halle
#81. His house, his rules. That's his motto.
Alex Abbott
#82. Adopt the motto - It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.
Maxwell Maltz
#83. Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority ... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.
Immanuel Kant
#84. Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
"Foundations of the Metaphysics of
Morals" (1785)
Immanuel Kant
#85. Personal Motto:
Life is Romance
Sara York
#86. My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.
Kiran Bedi
#87. I've never thought about the end of my career. I've had this growing motto in my life to live day to day - and when you live day to day, it's hard to talk years.
Troy Polamalu
#88. A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America ... a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."
D. W Brogan
#89. The answer cannot be found. That should be my new life motto.
Jessica Khoury
#90. I try to have the motto of living life with no regrets.
Matt Flynn
#91. Either hide this well or destroy it. It was the family motto.
Jill Lepore
#92. Basia coquum," Simon said. "Or whatever their motto is."
"It's 'Descensus Averno facilis est.' 'The descent into hell is easy," said Alec. "You just said "Kiss the cook."
"Dammit," said Simon. "I knew Jace was screwing with me.
Cassandra Clare
#93. Stan's father had told him that, before the money ran out, they had intended to put the statue of the soldier back up here again.
'I like the birdbath better, Daddy,' Stan said.
Mr Uris ruffled his hair. 'Me too, son,' he said. 'More baths and less bullets, that's my motto.
Stephen King
#94. Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.
George Farquhar
#96. My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.
Firoozeh Dumas
#97. My motto for fashion: If you can't afford to make an elegant statement, make a ridiculous one.
Stacey Jay
#98. My motto is, if it isn't beneficial it isn't necessary. So, if it doesn't benefit me why am I even considering this bullshit?
Drumma Boy
#99. I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.
Booker T. Washington
#100. Be Prepared ... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Robert Baden-Powell
