Haseo21 said:
My personal favorite and the motto my life is based on
"Never put anything before your pride, protect your pride first because in the end, pride is the only thing you will have left"
Hávamál said:
Deyr fé
deyja frændr
deyr sjálfr it sama
en orðstírr deyr aldregi
hveim er sér góðan getr
Roughly: Cattle die, family dies, your self dies - but reputation never dies, of he who builds himself a good one.
This is a poem from an ancient Icelandic story. The text is somewhat different from modern Icelandic (in case you try to run it through google translate or something), but it is readable by anyone who speaks the language. I thought it was appropriate, although one's pride and reputation are separate.
AvsJoe said:
This is a piece of advice that I wish I could forget but:
Great minds discuss ideas,
Average minds discuss events,
Poor minds discuss people.
I like this one a lot. I'd forgotten it, to be honest!
I wonder what video games would classify as according to the originator of this quote. (I do tend to talk a bunch about games)