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Quotes About Motto

Waste not, want not' is the Engineers' motto, Miss. Properly processed human ordure makes very useful fuel for our city's engines. And we are experimenting with ways of turning it into a tasty and nutritious snack. We feed our prisoners on nothing else. Unfortunately they keep dying. But that is just a temporary setback, I'm sure.
~ Philip Reeve
Ni känner väl till släkten Pennyroyals motto: 'När det hettar till gömmer sig förståndigt folk under stora möbler'?
~ Philip Reeve
We had a motto in my school: 'Men for Others.' And it was there that my faith became something vital. My north star for orienting my life. And when I left high school, I knew that I wanted to battle for social justice.
~ Tim Kaine
Thoreau's declaration in "Civil Disobedience": "I heartily accept the motto—'That government is best which governs least.
~ Jon Krakauer
Google has the informal corporate motto of "don't be evil", but they make money when anything happens online, even the bad stuff.' In
~ Jon Ronson
There are no guarantees in life, which is why my motto is to live intensely, love fiercely and to always have two shelties.
~ Priscilla Cogan
My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.
~ Tavi Gevinson
My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto.
~ Josh Turner
I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was Life is short; eat dessert first.
~ Wendy Mass
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Because I'm going to make you understand the family motto: Never let your obstacles become more important than your goal.
~ Dashka Slater
Then you'll remember the motto of John Carter of Mars: 'I still live.' Those three simple words express the essence of man, don't you think? With those three words, Burroughs expressed the human condition, because as long as life exists—there is hope.
~ David Archer
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.
~ James Gordon Brown
The motto of the mongoose family, so Mr Kipling tells us, is: 'Go and find out.' If Caroline ever adopts a crest, I should certainly suggest a mongoose rampant. One might omit the first part of the motto. Caroline can do any amount of finding out by sitting placidly at home.
~ Agatha Christie
but I do take an enormous interest in the personal aspects of what archaeology reveals. I like to find a little dog buried under the threshold, inscribed on which are the words: 'Don't stop to think, Bite him!' Such a good motto for a guard-dog; you can see it being written on the clay, and someone laughing. The contract tablets are interesting,
~ Agatha Christie
There was nothing mass produced about the school, but if it was individualistic, it also had discipline. Discipline without regimentation, was Miss Bulstrode's motto. Discipline, she held, was reassuring to the young, it gave them a feeling of security; regimentation gave rise to irritation.
~ Agatha Christie
Adapt and survive. Make do and mend. These were good mottos for a time traveller.
~ Alastair Reynolds
The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'
~ Alvin Dark
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) Have the courage to use your own understanding, is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.
~ Kant Immanuel
Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
When your corporate motto is "Making friends is our business," it forgives a lot of sins.
~ William Knoedelseder
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."
~ Kim Il-sung
There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."
~ Matthew Arnold
This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection.
~ Roselyn Sanchez
People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust...'
~ Ralph E. Reed, Jr.