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• We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

  Christopher McDougall

  Thinking, Born To Run, Can Do

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.61, Profile Books

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• Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.

  Philip K. Dick

  Scene

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Principles, Politics, Expediency

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2764, Delphi Classics

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• Be prepared,' that's my motto." He smiled smugly at me. "That, and 'Sleep whenever possible.' Oh, and 'If you don't notice it's gone, what's the harm in me taking it?

  Kiersten White

  Sleep, Gone, Harm

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• First in , Last out. Motto of the bridgeburners

  Steven Erikson

  Lasts, Firsts

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• [On plastic surgery:] My motto is: 'Anything that can be lifted should be lifted. Anything that falls should be caught. And try to catch any falling stuff before it hits the ground.

  Joan Rivers

  Fall, Trying, Stuff

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• The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Fire, Cooking, West

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Rivers of London”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stars, Home, Land

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• There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Character, Soul

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.102

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• Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

  Mark Twain

  Popularity

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.298, Courier Corporation

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• Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."

  Peter Drucker

  Keys, Effectiveness, Priorities

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• When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

  Harry S. Truman

  Decision, Bucks, Made

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• Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.'

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Motivational, Long, Guy

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• Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

  E. M. Forster

  Atheist, Believe, Mind

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• First, we should become informed about communism, about socialism, and about Americanism. What better way can one become informed than by first studying the inspired words of the prophets and using that as a foundation; against which to test all other material. This is in keeping with the Prophet Joseph Smith's motto, "When the Lord commands, do it."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Tests, Way, Firsts

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach for his cell phone. In contrast, after an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge. My own formula is roughly two hours alone for every hour of socializing. This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression. It does not call for medication. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating. Our motto: I'm okay, you're okay-in small doses.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Sleep, Phones, Cells

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• The Left will destroy what is good to try to make what is perfect. That is the motto of the Left

  Dennis Prager

  Perfect, Trying, Left

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• Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.

  William Wilberforce

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Effort

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• I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Government, Want

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• Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.

  Brenda Ueland

  Truthful, Being Truthful

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• One of my mottos is flaunt what you've got left.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Confidence, My Motto, Left

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• My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.

  Jenna Elfman

  Thinking, Simplicity, Enjoy Life

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• I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

  Unknown

  War, Mean, Enemy

  "Hitler and Nazism". Book by Louis Leo Snyder, p. 66, 1961.

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• Remember, your motto is, if they can do it, I can do it!

  T. Harv Eker

  Secret, Remember, I Can Do It

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 13, 2011

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• One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Science, Civilization, Shepherds

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

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