Top 100 The Motto Quotes
#1. That wild word, "Moor Eeffoc," is the motto of all effective realism; it is the masterpiece of the good realistic principle - the principle that the most fantastic thing of all is often the precise fact.
G.K. Chesterton
#2. Newspaper columnist Dave Barry once wrote that the motto of the wedding industry is, 'Money can't buy you happiness, so you might as well give your money to us.
Denise Fields
#3. I have always dislike people who live by the motto "It's my way or the highway" We live in a free nation called America and not some freaking dictatorship!
Timothy Pina
#4. The motto of the old order in the City of London was, 'My word is my bond,' but the financial crisis revealed a culture quite alien to that heritage. The stewards of people's money were revealed to have been speculators with it.
Gordon Brown
#5. Oh, well," yawned Vernon, "we all know that it's you Christians who go in for whips and tortures and burnings alive. Poor degraded sensualists like myself believe in the motto 'Live and let live.
Eleanor Scott
#6. I will do what I say I will do, tis the motto of all grand and worthy souls.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#7. In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us.
Chuck Palahniuk
#8. There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
Thomas Browne
#9. The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.
Felix Adler
#10. Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine , guard it well.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#11. I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.
Eddie Vedder
#12. Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.
David Starr Jordan
#13. A rose, with the motto Dum spiro spero, which actually I rather like - while I breathe I shall hope.
Jo Walton
#14. The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
Rumer Godden
#15. I work on the motto that if something's not impossible, there must be a way to do it.
Nicholas Winton
#16. The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Honore De Balzac
#17. I engaged in the wildest shenanigans just to distract myself from the horror surrounding me; I was acting according to the motto: if insanity laughs at you, laugh back!
Akif Pirincci
#18. It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
Rudyard Kipling
#19. The poor should learn what has always been the motto of the rich: "What's mine is mine and what is yours if I can I steal it."
William C. Brown
#20. We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.
Simon Winchester
#21. Children and scientists share an outlook on life. 'If I do this, what will happen?' is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist.
James Gleick
#22. I hate seeing people that look like you. Especially if God's living by the motto 'If at first you don't succeed.'
Demetri Martin
#23. Speaking of the motto of the New York Times, "All the news that's fit to print:" It is hard to think of any group of seven words that have aroused more newspaper controversy.
Gerald W. Johnson
#24. Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
Manmohan Singh
#25. Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.'
Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.
Cassandra Clare
#26. My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'
Amber Heard
#27. The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
Emma Goldman
#28. Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.
Benjamin Graham
#29. sometimes you have to live your life with the motto...#NoRegrets. Sometimes you have to ignore the way people perceive you and do what you feel is right.
Meghan Quinn
#30. My apprenticeship is more important than strangling Master Byron. I repeated the motto over and over again. If I said it enough times it would become true, or so I hoped.
Rachel E. Carter
#31. Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
Booker T. Washington
#32. One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#33. In the early 1990s, Target adopted some of Walt Disney's staff training and customer service initiatives. It has since developed a variety of methods - from hiring to coaching to grading performance - to ensure "team members" embody the motto "fast, fun and friendly." (See Chapter 5.)
Laura Rowley
#34. Ironically, the Democrats' great insistence on the natural equality of all white men prompted them to make a more glaring exception of non-whites. Taking seriously the motto "all men are created equal," Democrats called into question the very humanity of nonwhites in order to keep them unequal.
Daniel Walker Howe
#35. Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
Ernestine Rose
#36. The Boy Scouts might have the motto "Be Prepared," but where I grew up, you practically went straight from diapers to manhood.
Phil Robertson
#37. Never touch a mummified body part if you don't know where it's been. That's my motto." [- Lockwood]
"Holds true with unmummified ones too," George said. "That's the motto I live by.
Jonathan Stroud
#38. Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!
Julia Alvarez
#39. Enlightenment is man's exodus from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is the inability to use one's understanding without the guidance of another person..'Dare to Know'(sapere aude) Have the courage to use your own understanding;this is the motto of the Enlightenment.
Immanuel Kant
#40. The Left will destroy what is good to try to make what is perfect. That is the motto of the Left
Dennis Prager
#41. The motto goes: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll.
I prefer: Love, Hugs and Hip-Hop Soul.
Daniel Dumile
#42. They all had their personal preferences when it came to guns, but they all adhered to the motto that many was sufficient but more was even better. If the zombie apocalypse ever occurred, they were definitely prepared.
Maya Banks
#43. The motto is, focus on understanding, not on being understood.
Thomas D. Zweifel
#44. Have the courage to use your own understanding! - that is the motto of enlightenment.
Immanuel Kant
#45. Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.
Mayer Hawthorne
#46. I try to have the motto of living life with no regrets.
Matt Flynn
#47. The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better ... and continue to inspire!
T.F. Hodge
#48. 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
#49. I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen
Rene Descartes
#50. Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
"Foundations of the Metaphysics of
Morals" (1785)
Immanuel Kant
#51. 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
#52. Adopt the motto - It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.
Maxwell Maltz
#53. The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
Adoniram Judson
#54. Ironically, in life, you sacrifice everything you love in the name of love"~ the motto of the romance novel Cupcakes and Cologne.
Doina Moulin
#55. The motto of Harvard isn't 'nice,' it's truth. The motto of Yale isn't
'light and nice,' it's light and truth.
Scott Kenemore
#56. The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#57. 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
#58. In this particular lifestyle the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.
Philip K. Dick
#59. People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust ... '
Ralph E. Reed Jr.
#60. Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.
Adoniram Judson
#61. The motto above the lintel of the main entrance was in the raised script of the prayer language: My life for a thousand.
She remembered swearing an oath with that at its core: My life for yours, for ours, for Nasheen. My life for a thousand.
Kameron Hurley
#62. You can stick to your immovable zero-tolerance rules, but I'm going to stick to the motto "There's hope until the last second'!
Mary Lindsey
#63. Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]
Herodotus
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Voltaire
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.
Gerald Durrell
#74. 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
#75. Astrophysics. 'It's a super-long shot' is practically the motto of our profession.
Marko Kloos
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.
Sebastian Thrun
#82. The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.
Ben Aaronovitch
#83. It's hard for anyone, no matter what their age, having a child and trying to make a career, but you survive. My mum always had the motto 'You made your bed, you lie in it' and I guess I had to take responsibility for myself.
Lisa Maffia
#84. These brief weekly sessions helped to bring about valuable changes and health improvements in the participants. The motto was: we are all different and special, so we do not attempt to become like somebody else, but connect more deeply with our true selves.
Patrizia Collard
#85. A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-just as good as the real.
Charles Dudley Warner
#86. Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."
William Osler
#87. Mind your business had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.
Anita Diamant
#88. That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.
Amy Poehler
#90. The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.
Mario Bunge
#91. Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
Alexander Hamilton
#92. I have the motto that says, 'Whatever you see in your closet that you like, pick it and wear it.' It's not just your closet, but just your life. Whatever catches your eye. Pick it.
Willow Smith
#93. The motto here is that a new door opens every time you push another man out a window.
Ian Caldwell
#94. Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.
Henry David Thoreau
#95. For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert.
Robert Greene
#96. This should be the motto of every follower of Jesus Christ. Never stop praying no matter now dark and hopeless it may seem.
Billy Graham
#97. Thiel rejects the small-mindedness of most of the Valley's entrepreneurialism. The motto of Founders Fund is: "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters." But
Richard Byrne Reilly
#98. 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
#99. Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.
Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable.
Rosen Topuzov
