Top 100 Quotes About My Motto
#1. Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches, your Grace. That's my motto.
Melissa McPhail
#2. Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.
Emmy Rossum
#3. Guilty, Your Honor, but only of minor transgressions. My motto is, 'Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness keep you from your books.
Irving Stone
#4. My motto is: When in doubt, just keep lying. Even if you're terrible at it.
Victoria Laurie
#5. My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. Lo siento about the u-rine, mi amigo, but better safe than sorry when in the swamp. That's my motto.-Mark
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#8. Guys won't admit it, but we're all obsessed with our biceps. I did three sets of ten reps, thirty-five pounds on each side. I knew I was pushing it, especially since we have practice this afternoon, but what the fuck. That was going to be my motto today. What the fuck.
Carolyn Mackler
#9. 'If you believe, you can achieve' - that's my motto!
Sophie Turner
#10. Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.
Barbara Bretton
#11. [On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.
Peggy Guggenheim
#12. HOGAN-No, I wouldn't think it, but my motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself.
Eugene O'Neill
#13. I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.
Dawn French
#14. The old adage "If you can't beat them, join them", to me is just a way of saying that you're weak. My motto is : "If you can't beat them, then you aren't fighting dirty enough".
Quinn Loftis
#15. I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.
Isaac Parker
#16. My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.
Allan McNish
#17. How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity.
Pierre Coffin
#18. If anything normal were useful it would have been done already. That's why my motto is "Dare to Differ." Who know's what you'll find ?
Matthew Goldfinger
#19. First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.
Jeff Lindsay
#21. When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#22. Besides, take away self-interest and you condemn the species to extinction, that's my motto!
X
#23. Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.
Charles Bukowski
#24. Never get involved. That's my motto. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.
Adeline Yen Mah
#25. Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.'
Ayumi Hamasaki
#26. Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
Andrew Carnegie
#28. I have insecurities about being a good mom, or balancing my career with motherhood. All of those are very strong, very real obstacles. My motto is just unconsciously, and maybe now consciously because I'm saying it, is sink or swim. I'm a fighter.
Charisma Carpenter
#31. What are you going to do?" Stuart kept pace with her. "I don't know." He grinned. "Sounds like my kind of plan." "You should know my motto is to act first, think later." "I think I'm beginning to catch on to that.
Jody Hedlund
#32. My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation.
Lindsay Lohan
#33. My motto has always been: a hard man is good to find." Tess gave Hunter's unflinching bicep a gentle squeeze, claiming it and the man for her own. "And never let the bride stand in the way of me and my hard man.
Kate Meader
#34. I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!
Adolf Hitler
#36. On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.
Mark Twain
#37. Nothing less than seven inches, that's my motto. - Isabelle Lightwood
Cassandra Clare
#38. My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron
#39. My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.
Venus Williams
#40. My motto for creativity-
And remember, STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST.
Austin Kleon
#42. 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
#43. Uh, stay fat people - That's my motto. It's no picnic!
Seth Rogen
#44. No Judgment = No Expectations: That's my motto.
Arlo Guthrie
#45. When it comes to cooking now, my motto is "out with the whites!
Robin Ellis
#46. My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.
Alan Shearer
#47. 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
#48. I believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.'
Tom Brokaw
#49. 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
#50. Get thee behind me, whatever you are, that's my motto.
Gary Reilly
#51. 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
#52. [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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that you're trying to accomplish.
Ashanti
#57. Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'
William Safire
#58. Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in how they 'ought to be.' And I certainly have no interest in fixing them. I sincerely believe that if you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem. My motto: Fuck Hope!
George Carlin
#59. My motto is "Be Prepared." I am told this is also the motto of the Boy Scouts, but, if so, this only proves that they were acting according to my motto earlier than I.
David Mamet
#60. My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.
Jenna Elfman
#61. I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.
Anne Burrell
#62. 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
#63. I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.
Michael Jackson
#64. My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.
Kiran Bedi
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. My motto for fashion: If you can't afford to make an elegant statement, make a ridiculous one.
Stacey Jay
#68. 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
#69. My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.
Dionne Warwick
#70. A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.
Courteney Cox
#71. You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'
Elizabeth McCracken
#72. No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still
that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.
Muriel Spark
#73. I put a big slab of butter into the pan. The Olekseis didn't give one damn about health, which made them refreshing to cook for, and my motto was pretty much, 'When in doubt, add butter.'
Right now, I was definitely in doubt.
I added more butter.
Beth Harbison
#75. My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Charles Lamb
#76. The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.
Ozzy Osbourne
#79. My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.
Renzo Novatore
#80. Come on! We've had too many dead heroes. Being a coward increases your odds of survival-that's my motto. I'm counting on bieng faster than them.
Cinda Williams Chima
#81. Just because you love somebody, you don't have to let them hurt you. My motto is -- Love doesn't hurt.
Michaelene McElroy
#82. My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.
Paul Walker
#83. Do not be hasty, that is my motto.
Anonymous
#85. You have to trust the journey. That has become my motto for years: trust the journey. Because in the end, we're all kind of fearful. We all have fears and insecurities and ups and downs.
Kim Basinger
#86. My motto is, 'When in doubt, shoot the ball'
J. R. Smith
#87. I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.
John Updike
#88. I stay cool, and dig all jive,
That's the way I stay alive.
My motto,
as I live and learn,
is
Dig and be dug
In return.
Langston Hughes
#89. Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
Kingsley Amis
#91. My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto.
Josh Turner
#92. I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
#93. They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That's my motto.
Joe R. Lansdale
#94. I do not understand how you humans can walk in shoes that are that tall."
"Its my motto," said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. "Nothing less than seven inches.
Cassandra Clare
#96. Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
Samuel Beckett
#97. What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!
Janice Dickinson
#98. It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.
Larry Hagman
#99. I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.
Sarah Vowell
#100. Suddenly - I shone in all my might, and morning rang its round. Always to shine, to shine everywhere, to the very depths of the last days, to shine - and to hell with everything else! That is my motto - and the sun's!
Amor Towles
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