My Motto Quotes - Page 3

• What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

  Janice Dickinson

  Motto, Emphasis

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• It's my motto," said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. 'Nothing less than seven inches.' Meliorn gazed at her stonily. 'I'm talking about my heels,' she said. " It's a pun. You know? A play on-" "Come," the faerie knight said. "The Queen will be growing impatient." He headed down the corridor without giving Isabelle a second glance. "I forgot," Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. " Faeries have no sense of humor." "Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie night club called Hot Wings. Not," he added," that I have ever been there.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Night, Talking

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• Public service is my motto.

  Al Capone

  Motto, Public Service

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• They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That’s my motto.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Lying, Cat, People

  Joe R. Lansdale (2011). “Devil Red”, p.26, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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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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• It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

  Mark Twain

  Practice, Giving, Opinion

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7299, Delphi Classics

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• Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings. ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Feelings, Groups, Modern Life

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• I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’ So I jump on the airplane, try new things—sometimes I get in way over my head, but then I think, I’ll work my way out of this somehow. A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning…The thing I love about living in New York is that I never fail to get up in the morning and think, Something adventurous is going to happen today. The energy is operating at full throttle all the time. And if you want to be lucky you’ve got to go out and take advantage of it.

  Tom Brokaw

  Morning, New York, Mistake

  "Tom Brokaw: 'I'm The Luckiest Guy in the World'" by Kathleen Mccleary, parade.com. May 1, 2015.

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• I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that youre trying to accomplish.

  Ashanti

  Thinking, Trying, Motto

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• This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Knowledge, Ideas, Pairs

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

  Booker T. Washington

  Business, Thinking, Hands

  Booker T. Washington (2006). “Up from Slavery: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.240, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.

  Anne Burrell

  Oil, Trying, Pork

  "Chef Burrell shares restaurant secrets in TV show". Interview with Richard Leong, www.reuters.com. July 8, 2008.

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• My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.

  Venus Williams

  Athlete, Motto, Happens

  "Tennis star Venus Williams". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 16, 2010.

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• Better safe than sorry. That's my motto.

  Saul

  Sorry, Safe, Motto

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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, Motto

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• Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.

  Charles Bukowski

  Humanity, Motto

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Hero, Funny Things, Coward

  "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne, 2011.

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• Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Principles, Politics, Motto

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

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• If you believe, you can achieve - thats my motto!

  Sophie Turner

  Believe, Motto, Achieve

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• On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

  Mark Twain

  Dance, Dancing, Joy

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.790, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Waiting, Motto, Hunted

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

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• My motto is very simple. Win a Ring for the King.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Kings, Winning

  "Shaq: 'My Job Is to Protect The King'" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 13, 2010.

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• I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.

  Michael Jackson

  Color, Racism, One Day

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• I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.

  Carrie Fisher

  Giving, Advice, Motto

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