Motto Quotes - Page 3

• You all have learned reliance
  On the sacred teachings of Science,
  So I hope, through life, you will never decline
  In spite of philistine Defiance
  To do what all good scientists do.
  Experiment.
  Make it your motto day and night.
  Experiment.
  And it will lead you to the light.

  Cole Porter

  Teaching, Learning, Science

  Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

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• If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go.

  Keith Green

  Missionary, Missions, Definite

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• Uh, stay fat people - That's my motto. It's no picnic!

  Seth Rogen

  Loss, People, Picnics

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• The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

  Adoniram Judson

  Religion, Missionary, Christianity

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• God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.

  David Livingstone

  Son, Missionary, Made

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• The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Philosophy, Two, Political

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• In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.'

  Evgeny Morozov

  Philosophy, Evil, Arrogance

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• One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Regret, Trying, Skating

  "Kristi Yamaguchi: Olympic Medalist, Fitness Guru And Mom". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 26, 2011.

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• Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

  Marco Rubio

  Important, God We Trust, American Values

  Marco Rubio's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Safety, Challenges

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.

  Demi Lovato

  Life, Want, Emotion

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• If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

  Christian Louboutin

  Creativity, Bored, Design

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• My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

  Amber Heard

  Friendship, Best Friend, Blow

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• My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

  Roger Ebert

  Depressing, Good Movie, Bad Movies

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.282, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  War, Political, Sound

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• So I say, “Live and let live.” That’s my motto. “Live and let live.” And anyone who can’t go along with that, take him outside and shoot the motherfucker. It’s a simple philosophy, but it’s always worked in our family.

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, Simple, Live And Let Live

  "Carlin on Campus". Documentary, Comedy, 1984.

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• I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.

  Langston Hughes

  Alive, Way, Return

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• Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Kings, Book, Thinking

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• Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

  Immanuel Kant

  Enlightenment, Foundation, Use

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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. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Politics

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

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• Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

  Samuel Beckett

  Waiting, My Motto, Hunted

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.' And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

  Francis Scott Key

  Stars, War, Home

  Francis Scott Key, Roger Brooke Taney (1857). “Poems”, p.33

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• Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]

  Dante Alighieri

  Abandon

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• Everything in moderation, including moderation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Food

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• In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

  Stephen Colbert

  Order, Ignorant, Never Quit

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