Give Yourself A Motto

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Skullpanda

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"I do bad things to worse people."

I think it fits fairly well...especially since I help train people in martial arts. For all the violence that it contains, Krav Maga is a remarkably reactionist art.

Oh, and I do have a nerdier one. "Sudden experiments make God jump."
 

Olas

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If it's not broken I can fix that.

I just came up with that now so SHUTUP!!!
 

StormShaun

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Good thing I have one!

"A true Archangel fights evil and helps others, no matter the cost!" Since I am a goody goody person. xD

And

"No Dice!" Cause I like that saying. :D
 

Captain Anon

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"expect the worse, hope for the best". i also have "knowing what is right and not doing it is the worst kind of cowardice".
 

King of Asgaard

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I've got a couple:

'Mentalis Uber Alles'
'Vae Victis'
'Aurum Potestas Est'


Yay for Latin!
 

Wolf In A Bear Suit

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I am not too sure why but I'm going to go with "I'll fight every animal in this zoo". It has a story behind it but it's long and strange
 

Erja_Perttu

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I've technically got a family motto, but it's not a very good one - 'Commit thy work to God' doesn't work very well when I'm so atheist.

So I'll change it to:

Life is fear, but living is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

I found out I have a heart condition, and if I'm in a situation that scares me too much, my blood pressure will drop to the point I pass out, which, depending where I am, could have very bad consequences.

It's not going to stop me living as full and daring a life as I possibly can.
 

Mr F.

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Illegitimi non carborundum.

Perfectly encapsulates my world view, my view on relationships, my political ideology... Its a good phrase, what with being mock latin.

Hmmm, Perhaps I should have it added beneath the hammer and sickle on my left arm.

Kaleion said:
"No te tomes la vida muy en serio, despues de todo no saldras vivo de ella" which translates to "Don't take life too seriously after all you won't come out of it alive" though for some reason I wrote it like this on my profile "Don't take life too seriously since you know, you won't come out of it alive anyway"

It's something one of my mother's friends told me after I came home with all bruised from fighting at school because someone called me a coward, 3rd fight I had gotten into that week, I adopted the phrase for myself later on mostly to confuse my friend, it's meant to be funny because it's the kind of phrase that doesn't fit me at all, after all I almost never smile and according to my friend the day that I laugh it's the day reality will shatter, it's also sarcastic because I tend to say it in the most serious way possible while I look like I'm half dead, but it's also meant to represent how I have no regard for my own well being, often doing stupid stuff like fighting 3 muggers at the same time all by myself, which is really stupid considering I have never won a fight, ever, it sort of matches my view of life in a bizarre way, because it's both optimistic and pessimistic at the same time, and yes I have put way too much thought into it, kinda funny since as I said it was originally just meant to be funny because of my deadpan way of speaking and my incapacity to show much emotion when I speak, but it oddly started to fit really well, at least in my head anyway.
Heh. The reason I am quoting you is cause you reminded me of something.

Prior to a few world shattering events in my life, I was called Giggles. The phrase that was trotted out when talking to me was usually "Why so serious?" repeated ad nauseum. The reason being? I never smiled. I never laughed. I took myself way too seriously, I treated every moment in my life like it might be my last and I was preoccupied with a mixture of death and the depressingly small imprint I was making on the world.

Then I had a few days that could have been my last and I saw a few people live their last days. And BAM, Suddenly I had a sense of humour again.

If you cannot laugh at yourself, who will have the balls to laugh at you? And if nobody is laughing, you are doing something wrong.

Yeah, write that one down. I guess it can go with Illegitimi non carborundum.

EDIT:

Huh, I just remembered two which are very close to my heart which I came up with a long time ago. They only makes sense to one person, believed dead.

"I wish I could teleport, I wish I could fly, I wish I could blast black holes in the sky"
"There is a fine line between madness and genius. I rode over that line on a motorcycle made out of jelly a long time ago."
 

Sprinal

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Am I what I want to be or am I just a product of the objects I meet?

Yeah just came up with that then.
 

Helmholtz Watson

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Off of the top of my head, the first thing that comes to mind is from a movie I saw yesterday.....


(after Professor Charles tells Erik that the soldiers that fired the missiles were "just following orders") ?I?ve been at the mercy of men just following orders.....never again"

Another phrase that comes to mind is, "The true mind can weather all lies and illusions without being lost, The true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being harmed".

The two are quite the contradiction. :p
 

Hjalmar Fryklund

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"You are not strong if you're afraid to show your weak side." - My profile motto.

A variation that I am also fond of: "You are not an adult if you're afraid to show your childish side."
 

Bertylicious

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I like one of Kimiko's (from Dresden Codak) twitters:

"The worst thing about going outside is leaving your house" or "everything is poison"
 

TIMESWORDSMAN

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I would like to post The Return Of The King in it's entirety, but I feel the moderators my frown upon the idea.

"Don't jump into swimming pools filled with liquid nitrogen." ...There.