What’s your motto?

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Here are some great mottos from Motto Magazine’s “What’s your motto?” contest:

Pam
“We don’t attract what we want, we attract what we are.” – Anonymous

Peter Gouveia
My motto: “Live your life with passion so your epitaph will read ‘No Regrets.'”

elizabeth
Life is not greener on the other side.
“life is greenest where you water it most”

Stacie
There is no good or bad, just done and not done.
This is to motivate me to get started when I’m frozen with the fear whatever I do won’t be good enough. If I do it, it can’t be bad.

Skip Reardon
1. Actions speak louder than words.
2. We are what we repeatedly do.
3. Attitude is everything.

Ming Wong
I have two mottoes actually,one of which is attributed to Confucius: Find work which you enjoy, then you wouldn’t have to work a day in your life!
The other one: Everything’s relative. Truly.

And I’ll end today’s quotes with this delightful one that made me smile just to read it!

David R.
Allow room for good things to run wild.

7 thoughts on “What’s your motto?”

  4. Grim, GREAT QUESTIONS! I don’t know.

    To me, a motto is something that summarizes how you feel about life. You ask: about life how it should be (“something you want to live by”) or about life how it is (“something you live by”)? I think both.

    I think usually a motto is quite glazed by the “I wish it were” feeling. And for me, a motto is glazed by the “the way I think it should be and the way I want to act and to be.” For me (and I have no idea if other people think this too), a motto is my moving-toward place:

    “Life is greenest where you water it most”
    I want to focus on the important parts.

    “There is no good or bad, just done and not done.”
    I want to finish all projects, even hobby projects.

    “We are what we repeatedly do.”
    I want to have great habits.

    “Allow room for good things to run wild.”
    I want to plan for this good things to run wild!

    What do you think a motto is?

  5. Well, see, I like your mottos and I agree, they are things I aspire to. In a more cynical mood my motto would be quite different though. Not sure what my motto is right now….perhaps the quote about talent I posted here a while ago. I also think they can change over time, depending on what’s going on in one’s life. I’ll let you know when I’ve found *the* motto for me :)

  6. Grim, here’s that quote you wrote about talent, which I think is just super!

    A friend writes:

    • I guess if I had to sum up the way I live in a motto it would be—today is a gift, that’s why it’s called the present—I’m not sure where I ever heard that but I say it to myself every morning—really! It’s like you spend the day taking the wrapping off the present—-something new is going to happen—-you just don’t know what it is!

    I like the part about taking the wrapping off the present.

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