Motto Quotes

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. (Bette Davis)
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. View quote
E. M. Forster
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. View quote
Charles Lamb
Better to suffer than to die: that is mankind's motto. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one." View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels. View quote
Voltaire
We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can. View quote
Christopher McDougall
On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin. View quote
Gordon Brown
Whose lines are mottoes of the heart, Whose truths electrify the sage. View quote
Thomas Campbell
If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility. (James Frazer)
It turns out that the Romans were champs in making peace. Their motto was that if you want to make peace, you need to prepare for war. They knew game theory. View quote
Robert Aumann
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. View quote
Mikhail Kalashnikov
I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud. View quote
Glenn Gould
A Satanist practices the motto, "If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other!" Let no wrong go unredressed. View quote
Anton LaVey
The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
The investor would not be far wrong if this motto read more simply: "Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop". View quote
Benjamin Graham
My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more. View quote
Joe Strummer
I knew that I shouldn't have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together. View quote
Michael Chabon
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. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking. (Fred W. Friendly)
Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto. View quote
Samuel Beckett
My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. View quote
Edwin H. Land
All for one, one for all, that is our motto. View quote
Alexandre Dumas
My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God." View quote
Kim Il-sung