Mottos to live by

One of my favorite mottos to live by:

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as you ever can...

Here are some of my other favorites ---

1. Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

2. We are highly evolved spiritual beings having an earthly experience.

3. In every idea a multitude of new ideas is lying dormant. (Emmanual Swedenborg)

4. The earliest you can start any project is now. (Lucy Mallan)

5. The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside us while we live.

6. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

7. It's not how hard you can hit, but get hit and keep moving forward. (Rocky Balboa)

8. What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

9. To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. (William James)

10. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. (Barry LePatner)

11. That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. (Henry David Thoreau)

12. Live in the moment, not the past or the future.

13. You are either growing or regressing, there is no middle. Which one are you?

14. Be yourself, because the people who don't mind are the ones who matter and the people who do mind are the ones who don't matter.

15. He who always walks in darkness, shall never find a path.

16. A successful man is a man who has tried and failed a thousand times.

17. He who does not stand for something, will fall for anything.

18. Finish what you start.

19. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

20. You can't change other people. You can only change yourself.

21. Your focus determines your reality.

22. Be careful of your THOUGHTS, for your thoughts become your words. Be careful of your WORDS, for your words become your actions. Be careful of your ACTIONS, for your actions become your habits. Be careful of your HABITS, for your habits become your character. Be careful of your CHARACTER, for your character becomes your destiny.

23. Figure it out!

24. If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

25. It isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are! (Douglas Malloch)

26. Don't waste time worrying about what you can't change.

27. You get out what you put in.

28. Every cloud has a silver lining.

29. Everything has a flip side.

30. Belief in limits, creates limited people.


What is your favorite motto to live by? One that inspires you. I'd love to hear it!