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Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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Stole this from another msg board tehe.

What is your motto for life or one that you like?

Personally I like Monty Python's 'always look on the bright side of life'
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Success is the best revenge.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    There's always free cheese in a mousetrap...

    *snap*

    ouch!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    On a similar note to Jim's, I've always liked 'the early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese'.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Waste not, want not.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    "It will get done" - Usually in reference to work that I'm avoiding.

    "Just deal with it" - in reference to anything else.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    "The harder you work when you are young, the easier you'll have it and the more you earn when you are grown-up.

    Told to me by a successful business man (father of a friend).

    "Unverhofft kommt oft", rough and dirty translation: "Unexpected comes often"

    "G'scheid muss man ned sein, zu helfen muss man sich wissen."
    r&d translation, "You don't have to be clever, you have to know how to find a way." (or "..., you have to be a man of resources.")

    /eta: 2 other principles I go by:
    Judge them on their intentions, not their actions.
    Envy is the sinceremost form of compliment.

    I am actually a big fan of aphorisms so I never have just one motto.
    It has one positive effect tho lol, I often write them in my icq-away message and people start to think about it and start conversation with me about it.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    stress less.


    not really a moto or well know phrase, but it's good to live by :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Everything happens for a reason. Although its hard to believe sometimes.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Timon - What's a motto?
    Pumba - Nothing, what's a motto with you?

    :thumb:

    It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice :yes:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Don't get if you don't ask.

    &

    Treat others how you expect to be treated yourself (Unless of course your some kind of sick freak who likes having his testicles stamped on by an 18-stone heafer in 21inch high heels)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    A random thought that is ever increasingly true.

    "Life's just one long compromise"
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Erm, according to my surname, it should be 'The Red Hand of Ireland' :confused: (I think and one of the Irish speakers will have to check this for me, it's lamh dearg erin in Gaelic / Irish - I know so little of my heritage :blush:)

    Personally, I've got two ish:
    - if all you ever wear is a frown, how will anyone fall in love with your smile. [I don't tend to think of it as people falling in love with me though, but think if you smile, even when things are difficult, things will go so much more smoothly. People don't smile enough]

    and, I don't remember the words, but it's something I try to go by in general terms (just googled, and it came up as):

    - "God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."
    Selected from text written by Reinhold Neibuhr - 1926
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    I don't think I have a specific one... A few that I like are:

    "Knowledge is power"
    "You can't succeed if you're afraid of failure"
    "Even the longest journey begins with a single step"

    And more.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    'if i cant remember it didnt happen'

    my own one :angel:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    "The personal is political" :thumb:

    Also, I don't know if they're mottos, but definitely little phrases that have stuck with me include...

    "Life's a shit sandwich, but only if you're a shithead"

    "He not busy being born, is busy dying"

    "Treat people as you find them"

    aaand... "Ready or not, here I come" :razz:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    God Grant me to accept the things i cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people i have to kill cos they piss me off...

    To accept what's to come is to accept that you've got to say goodbye.

    Let it be.

    Take it easy.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The fool speaks because he has to say something; the wise man speaks because he has something to say.

    The Voltaire one below

    If there's grass on the wicket let's play cricket.

    no, you didn't just read that
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I love that Voltaire quote in your sig, Thunderstruck, crazy as this will make me sound - it speaks to me! :lol:

    I'm sure you had another great quote there at some point as well... hmm.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    briggi wrote: »
    I love that Voltaire quote in your sig, Thunderstruck, crazy as this will make me sound - it speaks to me! :lol:

    I'm sure you had another great quote there at some point as well... hmm.

    I think it was the Plato one which is the first one on that list.

    Voltaire is awesome but a little militant at times. The bit in the memoirs of Casanova when he meets Voltaire and the discussion they have is astounding.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Sometimes in life you've got to dance like nobody's watching.

    Erm, and ...

    What you have been is not as important as what you can be.

    Or something like that. I couldn't be arsed to look them both up.
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    Two more, though I wouldn't call them "mottos":

    "Wise people learn from other people's mistakes. Fools, from their own."

    "For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Get fucked and respect your loved ones.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    you only live twice
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    What's for you, wont go by you.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Sounds like your average 14-year old myspace philosophy :razz:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    xsazx wrote: »
    never regret anything that made you smile.

    I like that bit. Alot :)
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    xsazx wrote: »
    never regret anything that made you smile.
    So if someone had killed a person and smiled, but later in their lives changed, you would say they should never regret doing it? :p
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Indrid Cold wrote: »
    So if someone had killed a person and smiled, but later in their lives changed, you would say they should never regret doing it? :p

    God people look far too much into things :razz:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    StrubbleS wrote: »
    Sounds like your average 14-year old myspace philosophy :razz:

    Oh, no kidding. I can bear most of them but the one about smiling through tears make me dry-heave, sorry.

    "I am as constant as the northern star", quoth Julius Caesar the dipshit. I like to quote it too and hope I won't be mercilessly stabbed to death :razz:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Indrid Cold wrote: »
    So if someone had killed a person and smiled, but later in their lives changed, you would say they should never regret doing it? :p

    Hahahaha you are like me.

    My friend was saying that he always give the same advice to other friends. If you've done it before or gone through it..then you can do it again. He used the example of friends being nervous about job interviews so I said 'what would you say to a friend who had breastcancer again? Ohhh you've gone through it luv you can do it again?' Apparently I have a dark sense of humour
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