What's your own personal motto

[crowings]

There are talkers and there are doers. I prefer to do.

[Becoming-Bane]

Mine is the green lantern oath. It reminds me that whenever I'm afraid or I feel like I can't do something all I have to do is imagine that I can and my willpower will make it happen.

[holographicSam]

"Your body doesn't know what it wants. Your mind doesn't know what it wants. You do."

 

This is the one that helps me ignore the discomfort and the cravings

[RomeoFlow]

Here's mine:

 

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.†
 

We must not limit ourselves to something we can do, we must go beyond, do something out of our comfort zone. There we can see the real happiness and satisfaction. 

 

It applies not just in my workout but I apply it in everything

[Dleffe]

I learned this one during army training, was a favorit saying of our sgt: "Pain is just a feeling".

 

It really helps when they have you do stupid shit like marching 130km with full equipment and no food in 4 days.

I never got that lean again

[insanity]

I learned this one during army training, was a favorit saying of our sgt: "Pain is just a feeling".

 

It really helps when they have you do stupid shit like marching 130km with full equipment and no food in 4 days.

I never got that lean again

 

My modified version of that is "Whether it kills you, or not, it'll end eventually"

 

Little more morbid I guess, but it works for me.

[docdredd]

Courtesy of Logan Ninefinger's a Character in Joe Abercrombies FIRST LAW series. Who happens to be a Psychotic, Bi polar, Viking esq warrior who is attempting to be a better man..... 

 

 Still Alive .....

 

 and

 

You got to be realistic.....

 

 

 

 And from Inquisitor Glockter:  A crippled former POW who has a great disdain for both steps and humanity.

 

 Why do I do this? Why? 

[lazergician]

"Prove me wrong."

 

I tend to think I can't do things a lot, so my way of dealing with that is imaging someone else saying it and taunting me into proving them wrong, which I find really motivating. Then when I do it, I can be like "Take that, past me! I totally CAN do it!"

[Lokesbrah]

My motto is from my childhood hero the Dragon itself, Bruce Lee. He once said a passage which is someting I often forget, but everytime I get to remember it feels me up with emotion and I feel like I understand somthing more about myself and the world:

 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateus and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them".

 

And another of him which I try to live by daily:

 

"I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine".

[Arrowan]

"If you want something in your life you've never had, you'll have to do something you've never done."

 

"Do not fear failure--not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail." -Bruce Lee

 

And of course..."No one believes your excuses but you!" -Steve Kamb

[Godeskian]

I think everyone I know would say it's 'C'est la vie'. due to my general tendency to just accept more or less everything.

 

Personally? I actually abide by my family motto (yes, I have one, fringe benefit of being able to trace both my Scottish and Irish geneaology)

 

it's 'True To The End'

[Strickland5]

Easy ... "All that Glisters Is Not Gold" its from The Merchant of Venice, and I've got it tattooed on my left shin

 

 

It reminds me that money/possession/etc aren't the only things worth striving for.

[Red1263]

"Memento Mori" Latin, in english it stands for "Remember Death" as in remember that you will die one day. It helps motivate me to take more risks with life, to try to take initiative in a lot of things, and to not procrastinate. 

[amindset]

My motto that heard from someone is that pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, a second, or a year but eventually it will subside.

[Scholi]

"you wot ?" - It's hard to explain

[Steppinon D'Arrows]

"What is your motto?"

"Arresting Lupin."

-Maria Isshiki interviewing Inspector Koichi Zenigata, Lupin III: Tokyo Crisis

 

Actually, I don't really have a permanent motto but I thought the quote I put up there better than "What's a motto with you?"

...Although "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations" was one I had for a good while. I go back to it every now and then.

[Papa Raf C]

No body, no mind.

[Jpuck]

Mine has to be a quote by Gretzky "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"  Reminds me that if you don't put yourself out there then there is 0% chance of success.

[Dleffe]

No one can make me train like a Spartan, no one can stop me from doing it either!

[Grundig]

I am bipolar with ADHD , I suffer from Fibromyalgia and yet I can still say my motto is 

"Pain is temporary" 

 

 

[BarefootDawsy]

My wife and I came up with something in the early days which has become our family motto:

"No more mediocre life"

Basically whenever we're given a choice between something safe and something adventurous, this motto helps us choose the right path...

[Robert Macadam]

"Deserve victory"

I have problems cultivating self discipline. I have to remind myself to work for what I want. Natural skills will only get you so far.

[Squeak]

Mine is also my signature. Sweat dries, Blood clots, Bones heal, Suck it up Marine. Semper Fi, Do or die! For me it means I'm going to get sweaty, bloody, or break a bone but it ain't a big deal because those are all temporary deal with it. The second part is the unofficial Marine Corps motto, do whatever you set out to do or die trying.

[Dleffe]

Not my personal motto, but I feel it rings true anyway:

 

The difference between a master and a beginner is simply this, the master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.

[Archer]

"Deeds, Not Words"

 

my unit motto in the Army.  Has always stuck with me.