100+ Motto Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: 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

topic: Thinking, Motto, Born To Run

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

- Christopher Morley

source: Francine Rivers (2012). “Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection”, p.573, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

topic: Fun, Men, Motto, Unconquerable

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

- Cybill Shepherd

topic: Confidence, Motto, My Motto

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'

- Danny Bonaduce

topic: Life Is, Motto, My Motto

Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.

- David A. Morse

topic: Justice, Safety, Motto, Health And Safety

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

- David Livingstone

topic: Missionary, Action, Motto

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

- David Livingstone

topic: Son, Missionary, Motto, Only Son

If God's love is for anybody anywhere, it's for everybody everywhere.

- Edward Lawlor

topic: Love Is, Missionary, Motto, Great Missionary

follow your heart! (sppotedleafs motto)

- Erin Hunter

topic: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Motto

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

topic: Opposites, Agitation, Motto, Stagnation, Agitate

Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

- Ethel Mumford

topic: Widows, Motto, Orphan

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

- Ethel Mumford

topic: Doctors, Patient, Motto

The will of God - nothing less, nothing more, nothing else.

- F. E. Marsh

source: F. E. Marsh (1987). “1000 Bible Study Outlines”, p.30, Kregel Academic

topic: Missionary, Motto, Gods Will, Inspirational Missionary, Mission Trip

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

- Gayle Forman

source: Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.204, Penguin

topic: Regret, Momentum, Motto, Forward Momentum

His answer to every problem, every setback was â€œI will work harder!â€ â€”which he had adopted as his personal motto.

- George Orwell

topic: Answers, Problem, Motto, Personal Motto

In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.

- Gerald Durrell

source: Gerald Durrell (1993). “The Aye-aye and I: A Rescue Mission in Madagascar”, p.161, Arcade Publishing

topic: Conservation, Motto, Should

Arizona changes its state motto to Damn, it's hot.

- Greg Proops

topic: Hot, Arizona, Motto

According to an old French motto, Noblesse oblige - one must live up to one's name. The Rothschilds' condition of life has imposed on them a second motto: Richesse oblige - one must live up to one's fortune.

- Guy de Rothschild

topic: Names, Wealth, Motto, Noblesse Oblige

My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing.

- Halldór Laxness

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

topic: Strong, Packaging, Motto

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

topic: Decision, Bucks, Motto

My motto is to go wild on the accessories - the belts, the hair clips, the jewelery.

- Heidi Klum

topic: Hair, Accessories, Motto

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Love, Chivalry, Motto

My motto is, 'When in doubt, shoot the ball'

- J. R. Smith

source: "J.R. Smith: 'When in doubt, shoot it'" by Dave McMenamin, www.espn.com. January 8, 2015.

topic: Doubt, Balls, Motto

My motto is: more good times.

- Jack Nicholson

source: "Jack Nicholson's What I've Learned: "My Motto Is: More Good Times" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 19, 2015.

topic: Good Times, Motto, My Motto

Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.

- Jack Osbourne

topic: Overcoming, Motto

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

- Janice Dickinson

topic: Motto, Emphasis, My Motto

Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.

- Jay McInerney

source: Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.

topic: Drink, Motto, My Motto

Diversity, that is my motto.

- Jean de La Fontaine

topic: Diversity, Motto, My Motto

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

- John Chafee

topic: Motto, Should, Caution, Exuberance

The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging

- Julia Louis-Dreyfus

topic: Hug, Motto

Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.

- K.P. Yohannan

topic: Missionary, Motto, Preoccupation, Mission Trip, Perishing

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

- Keith Green

topic: Missionary, Motto

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

- Kingsley Amis

topic: Common Sense, Motto, Peril

My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?

- Libba Bray

topic: Wonder Woman, Wonder, Motto, Personal Motto

My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation.

- Lindsay Lohan

topic: Moderation, Motto, My Motto

To know God and to make Him known.

- Loren Cunningham

source: Loren Cunningham (1997). “Making Jesus Lord: The Dynamic Power of Laying Down Your Rights”, p.157, YWAM Publishing

topic: Missionary, Motto, Knowing God

A nation will not be moved by timid methods.

- Luis Palau

topic: Missionary, Motto, Method

And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Experts, Way, Motto

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

- Mario Bunge

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

topic: Chaos, Motto, Exes

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

- Martha Stewart

topic: Life, Change, Motto, Change Growth

Dare to grow into your dreams and claim this as your motto: Let it be me.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Dream, Motto, Claims

The Church must send or the church will end.

- Mendell Taylor

topic: Church, Missionary, Motto, Mission Trip, Missions In Life

Whats up with your motto? Will you lead? Will you follow?

- Nas

topic: Motto

Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.

- Neil Finn

topic: Mistake, Motto

I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.

- Nicolaus Zinzendorf

topic: Messages, Missionary, Motto

If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers.

- Nina Gunter

topic: Missionary, Motto, Missions, Inspirational Missionary, Missions In Life

Intent and service-that is my motto.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Motto, My Motto

The mission of the church is missions.

- Oswald J. Smith

topic: Church, Missionary, Motto, Inspirational Missionary, Missions And Prayer

Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?

- Oswald J. Smith

topic: Missionary, Motto, Should

You must go or send a substitute.

- Oswald J. Smith

topic: Missionary, Motto, Substitutes

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

- P. T. Barnum

topic: Business, Failing, Motto

If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.

- Pat Morley

topic: Missionary, Motto, Bigs, Soul Winning, Inspirational Missionary

My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.

- Paul Walker

topic: Sports, Motto, My Motto

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

- Peggy Guggenheim

topic: Art, Motto, Collecting

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

- Rene Descartes

topic: Desire, Unseen, Motto

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides."- Unofficial UN Motto

- Robert Asprin

topic: Blessed, Sides, Motto, Peacemaker, Both Sides

To Serve and Protect..."- Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets

- Robert Asprin

source: Robert Asprin (1990). “M.Y.T.H. Inc. in action”

topic: Protection, Motto, Racket

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

- Robert Burns

topic: Silence, Motto

For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert."

- Robert Greene

topic: Future, Motto

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

- Samuel Marinus Zwemer

topic: Prayer, Missionary, Motto

I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.

- Sarah Vowell

source: Sarah Vowell (2001). “Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

topic: Coffee, Drink, Motto

Better safe than sorry. That's my motto.

- Saul

topic: Sorry, Safe, Motto

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

- Sophie Turner

topic: Believe, Achieve, Motto

First in , Last out. Motto of the bridgeburners

- Steven Erikson

topic: Firsts, Lasts, Motto

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

- T. Harv Eker

topic: Secret, Remember, Motto

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

- Tamara Mellon

source: Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2011.

topic: Motto, Feels, Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway, Fearlessness, Have No Fear

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

topic: Running, Play, Motto

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

topic: Athlete, Motto, My Motto

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

- William Booth

source: Salvation Army, William Booth (1907). “Selected Papers on the Social Work of the Salvation Army”

topic: Soul, Missionary, Motto

Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?

- William Booth

topic: Feet, Missionary, Motto

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

- William Safire

topic: Politics, Motto, Gridlock

I have the motto that says, 'Whatever you see in your closet that you like, pick it and wear it.' It's not just your closet, but just your life. Whatever catches your eye. Pick it.

- Willow Smith

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Eye, Motto, Closets

My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.

- Allan McNish

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Motto, Ability, My Motto

Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.

- Arthur Mattuck

topic: Art, Motto, Mathematics

My whole motto is get four yards, and if I get more than four, that's fine.

- Corey Dillon

topic: Yards, Four, Motto

My motto is, if it isn't beneficial it isn't necessary. So, if it doesn't benefit me why am I even considering this bullshit?

- Drumma Boy

source: Source: www.complex.com

topic: Bullshit, Benefits, Motto

A hole is a hole has always been my motto.

- Eric Andre

source: Source: www.towleroad.com

topic: Motto, Holes, My Motto

No matter where I went, there was someone rejecting my ideology. What was interesting was these reactions made me want to do it even more because we had smoothed over that void, smoothed over what was missing. After all, our motto was, "A happy face, a thumping bass, for a loving race."

- Jazzie B

topic: Interesting, Missing, Motto, Happy Face

The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap."

- Leo Errera

topic: Humanity, Motto, Reap, Altruism

I'd describe myself as a sexual libertarian - but I'm not a libertine. "To each his own" is my motto.

- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

topic: Libertarian, Motto, Libertine

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

- Magdalena Neuner

topic: Blame, Motto, I Can

I've decided that my motto in life is "Get off my lawn." It's the right answer to everything.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Answers, Life Is, Motto, Right Answers

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Men, Rights, Motto

Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'

- Petra Kelly

topic: Motto, Gentle, Subversive

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

- Rodman Philbrick

source: Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.45, Usborne Publishing Ltd

topic: Good Riddance, Rubbish, Motto, Riddance

This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection.

- Roselyn Sanchez

source: "Actor Roselyn Sánchez: On Working in a Business Based on Rejection and Celebrating What Makes her Different". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Rejection, Protection, Motto

One of my mottos for living is: never eat on a boat, unless you own the boat.

- Jay Rayner

source: Source: au.askmen.com

topic: Boat, Motto, My Motto

My motto is: look your best, feel your best, but most of all, be your best at any age.

- Vanessa Bell Calloway

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: Age, Motto, My Motto

Perseverance is my motto.

- Madam C. J. Walker

topic: Perseverance, Motto, My Motto

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

- Jean de La Fontaine

source: Fables I, 'La Mort et le Bucheron'

topic: Men, Suffering, Motto

My motto is "more mystery, less history".

- Adam Carolla

source: "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

topic: Mystery, Motto, My Motto

My motto has always been that anybody can do it better than me.

- Paul Orfalea

topic: Motto, My Motto, Can Do

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

- Stephen King

topic: Fighting, Paradox, Motto

You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Motto, Ask Me, Asks

Kafka wrote the great line: "my education has damaged me in ways I do not even know." And that's always been a signature motto for me.

- Lynne Tillman

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Motto

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

- Philip K. Dick

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

topic: Motto, Scene

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

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

topic: Philosophy, Simple, Motto, Live And Let Live

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

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

topic: Important, Motto, God We Trust, American Values

That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

- Amy Poehler

source: Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

topic: Motto, Should, Please

All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

topic: Might, Motto, Burden

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

- Dante Alighieri

topic: Motto, Abandon

Maine's motto is "Vacationland," but as far as I'm concerned, it should be, "Maine: Putting the 'spite' in hospitality since 1820."

- John Hodgman

source: "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

topic: Maine, Hospitality, Motto

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

- Mark Twain

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

topic: Popularity, Motto

We've changed our internal motto from "Move fast and break things" to "Move fast with stable infrastructure."

- Mark Zuckerberg

source: Source: valleywag.gawker.com

topic: Moving, Motto, Break

Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.

- Anthony Trollope

source: Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.446