We haven't had one of these fun ones in a while.... If there was a motto/phrase/saying that you live by what is it?

Mine are...

1. Nothing ventured, nothing gained
2. Variety is the spice of life!!

ANyone else?

Sethina

My mom said this to me a couple of weeks ago trying to comfort me as I am going through a difficult time.

"Honey, it's the not the end of the world until the sun explodes. You'll be fine"

It's been stuck in my head ever since.

There are several quotes I like to remind myself of in difficult moments. Here goes:

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its
best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of
receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three
parts dead.

Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929)

Live simply, so others may simply live.
Gandhi

A great many people think they are
thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.

William James

I replay the following in my head daily:

1. I will not be denied!

2. Go for it!

I like the second one best. I remember hearing Sylvestor Stallone's Rocky say it. It has stuck with me ever since.

Duck

i live by
"Everything happens for a reason"
My mother told me this everytime something good or bad would happen to me.

And i always think of the quote "You will never possess what you arent willing to pursue", if i am having a rough day

Here are a couple of quotes I try to live by:

1) Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
(Author Unknown)

2) What you get by reaching your goals is not nearly as important as what you become by reaching them.
(Author Unknow)

3) A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Mimi :p

Anything worth doing is worth doing well

When you are sweeping just sweep (zen)

My mother always said that my grandfather always said...Give me my flowers now (don't save them for my grave)

Have fun and play well with others

Eat, drink, and be merry...

Life is as good as you make it

Oh, I forgot one that I've adopted in the last few years:

think global act local

1) If you want something you have never had before, you must do something you have never done before.

2)When life hands you lemons make lemonade.

3}It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or whre the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because therr is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high acheivement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither.
I have this framed over my desk and it has pulled me through so many hard times...just wanted to share.

Some of my personal faves:

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne

It is not what you call me, but what I answer to.

It's not brave if you're not scared.

An expert is one who has made all the mistakes.

He who refuses to admit that he is wrong is really saying that he is no better now than he used to be.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

And of course: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

I have a quote on my desk that I like:

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow worm. -Winston Churchill

One of my favorites

"I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get." Anne Tyler

This is one of my favorites, being a nontraditional applicant!

Theresa

Love these! Great mottos, I'm going to adopt some of them myself.

Musn't forget the one that started MomMD in the first place... Your impossible dream can become a reality...

Sethina

I love to collect quotes and I keep a book of them. Its wonderful to read when you feel you're in need of inspiration. :twocents:

People may doubt what you say but they will believe what you do. :goodvibes:

This quote is my favorite.

"Success is a journey not a destination."

Beckie

I'm like you - NY... I keep a running tally of quotes to switch around on my sig line LOL...

I have lots of favorites, but here's a few (sorry I only know who to credit on a few)

Live, live, live! Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death! (my sig line at the moment) -Auntie Mame

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. -Lin Yutang

The most important person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral-a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby's body...Even the angels have not been given such a grace! What is more glorious than this-to be a mother. -Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

Do your best and sleep in peace. God is awake.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. -Albert Ellis

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Life the life you have imagined. -Henry David Thoreau

Someday I hope to enjoy enough of what the world calls success so that somebody will ask me, "What's the secret of it?" I shall say simply this: "I get up when I fall down." - Paul Harvey

Dum spiro, spero (while I breathe, I hope)
Ora et labora (pray and labor)
(I love latin)

Fall seven times, stand up eight. (Japenese proverb)

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? -Dr. Robert Schuller

Joy is not in things, it is in us. -Richard Wagner

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people can always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -Mark Twain

erm, that was more than a few. Sorry - I got started and I just couldn't stop! LOL