Words matter. These are the best Motto Quotes from famous people such as Voltaire, Richard Dreyfuss, Judith Durham, Sarah Gavron, Bret Stephens, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
I lived by the motto, ‘If you don’t flirt, you die.’ And flirt I did. I flirted with all women, be they actresses, producers, or 80-year-old grandmothers. I even flirted with those who were out of bounds, like the wives of some of my best friends, which especially revolts me.
It doesn’t matter what it is you’re doing, my motto is: the joy is in the doing.
The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was ‘Deeds not Words,’ and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.
‘Character Doesn’t Count’ has become a de facto G.O.P. motto. ‘Virtue Doesn’t Matter’ might be another. But character does count, and virtue does matter, and Trump’s shortcomings prove it daily.
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.
My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it’ll get to my head.
My colleagues think I’m crazy but my motto is, never miss a day. If we’re taping in L.A., I’ll get up at 2 a.m. to go run. If I’m on the road and the hotel doesn’t have a gym, I’ll find a 24-hour gym. I don’t know how to exist without my workouts.
If you live your life thinking about your legacy or what you’re going to leave, you don’t worry than you add another concern. Just live your life every single day, do the best you can and that’s more of my motto than leaving a legacy.
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.
I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.
That’s my motto: dream, believe, achieve.
I was ranked the fifth most bipartisan freshman when I went to Congress, and I think that my motto really is, ‘Agree where you can and fight where you must.’
My motto is ‘Man Down,’ and I have to live up to it. I don’t go in looking for the knockout, but I let it happen naturally.
I never plan to run at a certain pace. All my career my motto has been ‘no limits.’ I don’t try to run with a set time in mind, sticking to set splits, because what happens if you’re ahead of your splits – are you going to slow down?
I always say that my motto when it comes to children is: My job is not to get you into Harvard, it’s to get you to heaven.
The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.
My motto is ‘show respect to those who show respect to you.’
My motto – sans limites.
My motto is: more good times.
I always say I’ll rest when I die – that’s my motto. I just hope I don’t die before the World Cup!
My colleagues think I’m crazy but my motto is, never miss a day. If we’re taping in L.A., I’ll get up at 2 a.m. to go run. If I’m on the road and the hotel doesn’t have a gym, I’ll find a 24-hour gym. I don’t know how to exist without my workouts.
I’m just going to keep going. That’s been my motto since I was younger, through all adversity and all obstacles.
As a Navy SEAL, our motto is obviously ‘Never Quit,’ and our only easy day was yesterday. Send in the Navy SEALS – I think it’s time to send the Navy SEALS to Washington!
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
I always have a motto: if it’s going in-and-out one night, then the next opponent should be worried.
You are not going to be young forever, but my motto is, ‘You can’t change what I was.’
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.’
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.
My motto is: Live every day to the fullest – in moderation.
I think our family motto is to always work hard, be humble, kind, and thoughtful about others around us.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
My motto is, ‘You may not be as good as you think you are, but thinking you are is good.’
The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the ‘action generation’ whose motto is ‘do more but feel less.’
Just get on with it.’ That’s a life motto.
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.
Just get on with it.’ That’s a life motto.
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.
Never trust a hippie. That’s definitely my motto.
Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love – and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state motto, ‘Centre of Excellence,’ in what often seems a sarcastic swipe at the place we live in.
Higher, faster, longer – that is my motto.
If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.
Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.
Our country’s motto is e pluribus unum: out of many, we are one. Will we stay true to that motto?
My motto for Seoul is ‘From Good to Great.’
My grandmother had a motto that you should never look down on people unless you are helping them up, and I think that’s a very spiritual way of living.
My motto is ‘from difficulties up to the stars.’ I got a tattoo to represent that when I used to sit in the stands at Treviso.
Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: ‘So let it be written, so let it be done!’ Like Yul Brynner’s Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille’s ‘The Ten Commandments,’ the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.
My band’s motto is ‘Yngwie or the highway.’ Do you think Leonardo Da Vinci allowed someone who came later to add to his paintings? It’s impossible. That’s the whole issue. I’m not a typical rock n’ roll guitarist nor a simple band member.
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.
I guess I still have this motto: ‘What else can I get away with?’ And unpredictability in film – that’s the hardest thing there is.
My life motto is ‘Do my best, so that I can’t blame myself for anything.’
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.
My motto now is eat to live. Not live to eat.
I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam – I break in order to reveal.
Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‘Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?’
I work on the motto that if something’s not impossible, there must be a way to do it.
My new motto is: When you’re through changing, you’re through.
My friends and I started that motto early in high school – that attitude, that mentality – from way back then: Want to go to Stanford? Why not? Want to play in the NBA? Why not?
My dad taught me very early in life that whenever a child learns to walk, he falls a lot of times, but then he picks himself up and learns to walk like a man, and that is something which is a motto in life as well. You gotta pick yourself up, and you gotta walk, and you gotta walk strong.
I want to show the world that we have the best fighters. Our motto is, ‘Death is better than second place.’
I try to have the motto of living life with no regrets.
Our state’s world famous motto, ‘Show me,’ reminds us that Missourians don’t much value big talk.
My motto is: more good times.
The motto to work hard and get back that India jersey never died in me.
I don’t have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
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.
My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.
My battalion motto in the Marines was, ‘Whatever it takes,’ and I’m going to do whatever it takes to help win back the House in 2018.