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Quotes About Motto

They were fighting for the honour of the Eldon League, a student dining club whose motto was 'forwards into the past', to determine its position on the European Community.
~ Robert Saunders
Perhaps you have heard the Zen motto that says, "When the student is ready, the teacher appears"?
~ Ruth Ozeki
And lo, there, immediately, was god, and he was furious. 'How did you come up with the idea of me,' he demanded, 'who asked you to do that?' and he threw them out of the garden, into, of all places, Iraq. 'No good deed goes unpunished,' said Eve to Adam, and that ought to be the motto of the entire human race. The
~ Salman Rushdie
The New England divine Cotton Mather puts it this way: "Exhibit as much as you can of a glorious Christ. Yea, let the motto upon your whole ministry be: Christ is all. Let others develop the pulpit fads that come and go. Let us specialize in preaching our Lord Jesus Christ.
~ Joel R. Beeke
I like the idea of a motto," she goes on. "I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times." "Like what?" asks Gat. Mirren pauses. Then she says: "Be a little kinder than you have to." We are all silenced by that. It seems impossible to argue with.
~ E. Lockhart
I like the idea of a motto,' she goes on. 'I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times.' 'Like what?' asks Gat. Mirren pauses. Then she says, 'be a little kinder than you have to.
~ E. Lockhart
The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant "I try and I achieve.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Since its inception, the American nation has had on its official seal the following motto: 'e pluribus unum,' which in Latin means, 'from the many, one.' That would change dramatically if Puerto Rico were to become a state.
~ Anibal Acevedo Vila
'Out of many, one' is the national motto, and what the Founders imagined it meant is that out of the great and celebrated differences between us comes one nation and one larger purpose.
~ Mike Gallagher
Love is strange" was what everyone said. It was practically the club motto.
~ Francine Prose
Blessed is the man who has made that "I have nothing" the motto of his ministry.
~ Andrew Murray
When it comes to immigration, the journalist's motto is: The public can't be trusted with the truth.
~ Ann Coulter
Our clients depend on us, I shot back. That's why they keep calling back. Our motto was, one call, seven sitters, remember? Not one call, four or five sitters who bothered to show up and a couple of others out shopping.
~ Ann M. Martin
APOPHTHEGM  (A'POPHTHEGM)   n.s. remarkable saying; a valuable maxim uttered on some sudden occasion.
~ Samuel Johnson
Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
~ Barbara Johnson
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
Payattention.  As a summation of all that I have had to say as a writer, I would settle for that.  And as a talisman or motto for that journey in search of a homeland, which is what faith is, I would settle for that too.
~ Frederick Buechner
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
~ E. M. Forster
Never regret love," she says. "That's my motto. I don't ever regret having loved someone too much, only not loving someone enough.
~ Rowan Coleman
One by one I could handle them, but if they combined into a mob of three I would have trouble. Divide and conquer would be my motto.
~ Margaret Atwood
The pen between my fingers is sensuous, alive almost, I can feel its power, the power of the words it contains. Pen Is Envy, Aunt Lydia would say, quoting another Center motto, warning us away from such objects.
~ Margaret Atwood
Pen Is Envy, Aunt Lydia would say, quoting another Center motto, warning us away from such objects. And they were right, it is envy. Just holding it is envy. I envy the Commander his pen. It's one more thing I would like to steal. The
~ Margaret Atwood
Pen Is Envy, Aunt Lydia would say, quoting another Center motto, warning us away from such objects.
~ Margaret Atwood
my family and the Old Doctor's family have had more than our share of ups and downs. 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