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• You can use the same motto for everything in life. If you put that effort in, you'll get what you want.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Effort

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• Our motto is just to play the whole 48 minutes. We are here to play it from start to finish. Things will go up and down. We will make runs and they will make runs. But we just keep playing.

  Tim Duncan

  Running, Play, Minutes

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• A Satanist practices the motto, "If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other!" Let no wrong go unredressed.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Men, Practice, Thee

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

  Billy Collins

  Firsts, Succeed, Evidence

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• My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

  Alan Shearer

  Giving, Life Is, Cents

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• Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.

  Erik Naggum

  Animal, People, Together

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• I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

  Alan Kulwicki

  Acquire

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• A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.

  Bartholomew Roberts

  Pirate, Satiety, Piracy

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• The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'

  Alvin Dark

  Giants, Shut Up, Deals

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• When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed.' So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Simple, Men, Ak 47

  "Kalashnikov, 90, decries 'criminal' use of rifle" by Dmitry Solovyov and Michael Roddy, www.reuters.com. October 26, 2009.

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• I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Giving, Forever, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 31: 1 February 1799 to 31 May 1800”, p.78, Princeton University Press

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• In what might be a motto of those who sought the presidency and lost, Ted Kennedy once said, "Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."

  Bob Dole

  Mind, President, Might

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• I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Transcendentalism, Anarchist

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

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• In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liberty, Prison, Slave

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• If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others?

  David Jeremiah

  Writing, Numbers, Needs

  David Jeremiah (2011). “Sanctuary: Finding Moments of Refuge in the Presence of God”, Thomas Nelson

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• The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strength, Strong, War

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.599, Best Books on

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• The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

  Mario Bunge

  Justice, Chaos, Complexity

  "The Myth of Simplicity: Problems of Scientific Philosophy". Book by Mario Bunge, 1963.

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• The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.

  Oliver North

  Dad, War, Years

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• And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters and dissenters and perhaps Utopians. Father's rule had been 'Question everything, take nothing for granted,' and I never outlived it, and I would suggest it be made the motto of a world journalists' association.

  George Seldes

  Brother, Father, World

  George Seldes (2011). “Witness to a Century: Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious, and the Three SOBs”, p.24, Ballantine Books

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• I never let myself get psyched out. My motto is, ‘Stay calm and carry on.’

  Mary Cain

  Stay Calm, Calm, My Motto

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• My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.

  Renzo Novatore

  Old Things, Smoking, Leaving

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• Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

  Ernestine Rose

  Opposites, Atheism, Agitation

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• My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing.

  Halldór Laxness

  Strong, Packaging, Clear

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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• If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.

  Savitri Devi

  Strong, Order, Things Change

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• First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be Gods. "Be and make." Let this be our motto. Say not man is a sinner. Tell him that he is a God. Even if there were a devil, it would be our duty to remember God always, and not the devil.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Helping Others, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1746, Manonmani Publishers

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