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A motto is a short phrase that is intended to capture the essence of the beliefs and purpose of a government, group, company or individual. The scouting movement's famous motto Be Prepared is a classic and effective example, as is the New Hampshire state motto Live Free or Die.
Individuals often select or compose mottos to guide how they live their lives. The Charles Swindoll quote above might well be chosen as someone's personal motto to live by. Perhaps you can find a quote on this page that creates a statement of what your life is about. Better yet, be inspired to consider your beliefs and life purpose, and craft your own life motto.
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Be Here Now.
- Ram Dass
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Above all to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Know thyself.
- Socrates
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
Live Your Dreams.
- Les Brown
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
- James Dean
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
Let's Roll.
- Todd Beamer
Whatever it takes!
- Anonymous
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Actions speak louder than words.
- Anonymous
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Yoda (Star Wars movie)
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
Never Quit.
- Anonymous
Winners never quit and quitters never win!
- Vince Lombardi
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous
Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
The buck stops here.
- Harry Truman
When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Count Your Blessings.
- Og Mandino
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
- The Bible
Do no harm.
- from the Hippocratic Oath
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't sweat the small stuff.
- Richard Carlson
Love conquers all.
- Virgil
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
Courage doesn't always roar.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No regrets.
- Anonymous
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be gentle with the earth.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
From caring comes courage.
- Lao Tzu
I have a dream...
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Imagine...
- John Lennon
Be prepared.
- motto of the scouting movement
- created by Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting.
Do Your Best.
- cub scout motto
Just do it!
- Nike motto
Be all you can be.
- United States Army motto
Semper Fidelis [Always Faithful]
- United States Marine Corps motto
That Others May Live.
- United States Air Force Pararescue motto
Service Above Self.
Rotary International motto
Don't tread on me.
- early United States flags
Live Free or Die.
- New Hampshire state motto
Give me liberty or give me death.
- Patrick Henry
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- motto of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR)
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
Don't be evil.
- Google unofficial motto
Think.
- IBM
No pain, no gain.
- exercise motto
To boldly go where no man has gone before.
- Star Trek
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as I think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't have the power to make life "fair," but I do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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