Having a teenager I say "you can get mad and you can get glad" alot. lol

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. :-)

And this too shall pass was taught to me by my mom and I have used it many, many time when times were tough.

Jodi-

I have always told my kids to keep their Karma clean AKA what goes around comes around.

Peace is also my motto or mantra I wear jewlery that says Peace carry a charm in my wallet and on my key chain that says it, in every room of my house you will see the word Peace somewhere. This I want above all else in my family to me everything else will flollow.

S*it happens! Sometimes it is the only way to explain the bad things that happen for no reason.
Clare

Treat others as you want to be treated.
Deb

Life is too short NOT to eat dessert first! (Erma Bombeck)

Get outta my face - I'm kickin' butt and taking names!

For the same reason you haven't won the lottery - that's just the way it is!

If you live in the past - you miss the present.

You have to lay down to be walked on.

I also often fall back on the 'this too shall pass' attitude.
j

Personal Motto:
Yesterdays' Gone. Tomorrow doesn't exist. There's only today.

Noone has ever liked my motto... They say it's depressing...ha...(Maybe because it's true)

Besides the Golden Rule, my motto is: Have fun, be nuts. What did sanity ever do for you?

Ill be nice to anyone who is nice to me.....

I once had a bumper sticker that said "Why Be Normal?".

I like: "Live, Love, Laugh"

"Don't hold on to Negative Thoughts".

"You can choose to be happy, or choose to be sad. It is a Choice".

Gayle

I use a few;

What goes around comes around
Treat people the way you want to be treated
If you can't be nice be quiet -I use this one A LOT
You get what you give - that changes sometimes to "you get out of it what you put in to it"
You reap what you sew.

Apparently I only preach about the same thing just in different ways. go figure.

I'm thinking I'll be using this one for myself now. I like it.

"Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow, because you may not have to do it after all."

As a teen (similar to Ashli's motto) I had a plaque that said:

"Yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well-lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope."

I think I put that in my yearbook too.

Another read: "Never stop questioning." ~ Einstein

These days it's:

"It's not having what you want, but wanting what you have, that counts."

I always told my kids, "If you make your bed with wrinkles, you will sleep on wrinkles."

Mine are>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This too shall pass and Don't sweat the small stuff and it's all small stuff!! Also you get out of life what you put into it,much like a bank account...............you put nothing in,you get nothing out.

I actually use a lot of them,all the time!
Kathi

I have several that come out of my mouth occasionally: One from my grandma, "The first hundred years are the worst.". one of my own favorites is, "There ain't no Ward and June anymore" and "Will this matter a year from now?"

Never go to be angry, stay awake and plot your revenge.

OK, that's not really my motto, most of the time. Usually it's - Cheer up, you'll soon be dead.

ooohhh---I am reading so many that I say-----kinda forgot about them when I first posted above!!
I guess I have many mottos--thanks for reminding me!!

A favorite from my childhood, which I transposed into my own version: "punch with the rolls" -- I had visions of rolls flying at me and I'd just punch them out of the way -- not quite what "roll with the punches" means.

Live and let live is always good.

At work sometimes, I invoke (mostly to myself) "I'm not paid enough to deal with this s*it!"

Always liked Mom's, "Everyone to their own taste, said the old lady as she kissed the cow".

And one I employ in everyday life (my own)--Dinner should take no longer to prepare than it does to eat.

This too shall pass........

AND

Less is More...........

"Treat everyone as you would like to be treated."
To my DH who worries about EVERYTHING! "Don't stress/worry about things you can't change."
To my kids and grand kids,"Sleep with the dogs and you will get fleas","Things will get better,eventually!" "Too bad,so sad!" "Life is what you make it." "You can get glad in the same pants you got mad in."
"Dance in the daisies!" I use to have a gif that I added to all my posts and e-mails with a little old lady dancing on a bed of Daisies.I lost it when my computer went down and haven't found another one.
"Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow, because you may not have to do it after all." LOL I like that one!

"What does not kill me, makes me stronger."

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)

Not really a motto but we like...
God grant me serenity...
to accept the things I cannot change...Courage to change the things I can...and Wisdom to know the difference.

I beleive Karma has a way of making things right...in time.

In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant....I recommend pleasant.

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

My favorite is the Golden Rule but I have a couple of others I use, also.
"Maybe tomorrow.......?"
Cheer up, things could get worse.
I cheered up and sure enough, things got worse.
I have the choice to be upbeat and happy or depressed and angry.....remember it!

Housework when done properly can kill you.

My friend always says "I think - therefore I'm single."

Linda

I thought of another one I use alot: "Tomorrow is another day."
(compliments of Scarlet o'Hara!)

Live and let live.

He who is not actively kind, is cruel. (John Ruskin)

And this one...which I made up...
Like a possum, I am a misunderstood scavenger. :))

The perfect is the enemy of the good. Voltaire

My ex's grandmother, always said this...and to me its so true.
If you can't come see me while im alive, don't bother coming to see me when i die.
At first I thought it was pretty harsh what she said, and then I got to thinking about it, and its really not harsh at all.

I'm irritated by people on another board who are trying to beat some sense into someone who clearly doesn't get it, or doesn't want to. She's he!! bent on doing something dumb and no amount of reasoning is going to get her to see it.

So my motto for today is:

Ignorance is curable, but nothing fixes stupid.

Many come to mind along with many excellent ones above.
To go along with tally's:
The difference between genius and stupidity is that even genius has it's limits. --Albert Einstein.

From my Mom: If you don't like my gate don't swing on it.

And finally: Drink upstream from the herd.

Ron

OMG Ron, that's a keeper for sure :)

My favorite is:
God wouldn't bring you to it if He couldn't pull you through it!
Suzan J

"Thou shall not should on thyself." Either do it or don't, and quit agonizing.

Many good ones here---thought of another one as I keep trying to encourage my children as they are going forth into adulthood........

Unless you are the lead dog, the view doesn't change!

(I tell then this as they are groaning about the jobs they have now----hope it encourages then to complete their education and find what they love to do!-course, I know that is no guarantee either--but I want them to have that piece of paper to fall back on throughout life should they ever need to!)

This isn't original with me, but it's one of my favorites. When students stress over their mistakes, I like to remind them that that's why pencils have erasers.

No one ever said life was fair.

Ever since high school-this was our class motto & I have continually lived my life with this motto:
"The harder the conflict-the more glorious the triumph."

Ron,

Dad (a rather independent old farmer) used to say, "If you don't like my gate ...."

He was fair-minded, too, and would listen to reason.

There are several others as quoted above that I've heard frequently and thought useful/quoted at times, but my main one is a variation (upgrade?) of one that several have used,

"Live and HELP live", which is much like, "Do unto others as you would be done by".

As for quoting "Peace" a great deal ... some of us feel that peace is like a fruit, that doesn't appear out of thin air. Without the root of justice, the trunk of fairness, with branches of compassion and leaves of love ...

... we won't get a peach called ... "peace".

Even if we pray a lot for it.

Perhaps akin to praying to God for a car ...

... but neglecting to go to work to raise the money to help pay for it.

It seems to me that we shouldn't use prayer as a short-cut, or as an alternative to either laziness or shoddy thinking.

Seems to me that God gave most of us a good brain ... and a good arm ... and expects us to make good use of both of those gifts/benefits ...with regard to ourselves.

And others around us, which some of us say that we should look upon as fellow citizens of the world ... and it seems to me that it makes more sense for us work together with others, to co-operate, rather than fight them, to follow the rule of every (man) person for him/herself.

And the devil take the hindmost?

The guy who was the reason for the writing of the New Testament doesn't talk to me in that kind of language.

Good wishes to everyone for good fruit during this fine new week.

ole joyful

I have several. First and foremost...

"This is the day the Lord has made, (I) will rejoice and be glad in it." (Ps. 118:24 NKJV)

And...

"Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away."

âÂÂIf there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where ever they went.â - Will Rogers

âÂÂEvery now and then, I wish it were then instead of now.â - Thomas Michael

From my high school year book...

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau

I'm still listening to that different drummer. He's led me all over the world.

When I'm missing my aunt, or some of my dearest friends, I think of this...

Although my neighbors are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups on my table. - Tang Dynasty

Worry doesn't help or change anything. Also, don't cross your bridges until you get to them.

From one of our horse magazines there stands a cowboy, maybe a bullrider...
It says...Pain is guaranteed, suffering is optional.

I like to remind myself once in a while. Keeps the pitty parties to a minimum.

I always liked "Judge not, lest ye be judged". I feel it applies to me many times.

From one of the best movies made in the last 10 years; Secondhand Lions--the McCain brothers say "If you need something, get it yourself. Or better yet, learn to make do without."

Ron

Don't put all your eggs in one basket. (my gramma) She also said "Don't count your chickens before they hatch."
Leslie

Love really is lovelier the second time around.