Your personal mantra/saying

[icedoverfire]

Hi gents,

What is a mantra, phrase, or saying you always keep in the back of your mind or start your day with?

I have several, one of which is a quote by Michael Caine:

"Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath."

- ice

 

[letsdisinfect]

Mr. Carlton, my English teacher my junior year of high school, had a couple of mantras that have stuck with me.

"Improvise. Adapt. Overcome." was probably my favorite. Any problem can be bested, you just need to find the right way about going about it. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of it at some point.

Also, first day of class, he wrote the Greek letters Sigma Delta Gamma on the board. He explained to us that it stood for "**** don't go" and not to bull**** him in his class. He expected high quality work from everyone and wouldn't take any excuses.

I really need to get in touch with him, he really was a fantastic teacher.

 

[DavyRay]

One with variations:

Fortune favors the well-prepared.
Nature favors the well-prepared.
Luck favors the well-prepared.

 

[firehydrant]

An old pioneer saying:

"Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do or do without.

The other: "It's all good".

 

[ouch]

Be kind to people you meet on the way up, because you're going to meet the same people on the way down.
-R. Kramden

 

[SmoovD]

If you don't have anything nice to say, sit next to me.

 

[ImaRobot]

"Walk upright or not at all"

 

[Barbarian]

"Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the women."

Not really mine though.

 

[calcustom]

What people say about me is none of my business.

 

[Ru4scuba?]

A few come to mind but the one that sticks out...

"Its always darkest before the dawn"

 

[kwk285]

Here are a couple

1) Make sure the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a train bearing down on you.
2) Perception is Reality.

 

[Tricky]

live the dream.

 

[Kouros]

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

 

[holiday]

''expect the worst and you'll never be disappointed''

 

[HoratioCaine]

"Whaddayougonnado?"

Applicable in almost any situation.

 

[Uncle Erik]

"Screw it. Let's get a drink."

 

[Shane]

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

 

[ouch]

"Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the women."

Not really mine though.

Must have been some other barbarian.

 

[Stubblefield]

"It's funny 'till someone gets hurt--Then it's freaking hilarious. "

OK not really. It is:

"Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie; In the balances they go up; They are together lighter than breath."

 

[drifwood]

Here's one that I've used as a sig in an unrelated forum.

Translated from French :

Follow those who seek the truth. Flee from those who have found it. - J. Gide



Ian