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What is your motto? (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by FatTony@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
 

Doesn't have to be a life motto. Any motto, for any application.

Mine is: "Fear is shorter than regret."

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 8 months ago

"Kills bugs dead."

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 8 months ago

"Will this matter in 6 months?" If not, don't waste your mental energy on it.

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Any man can grab a tiger by it's balls, but it takes a real man to squeeze.

[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 3 points 8 months ago

So no more running. I aim to misbehave.

[–] Lennnny@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Don't get paid in promises.

[–] Xkaliber@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

What me worry?

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

"If you don't want life you fuck you, be a dick, not an asshole" /J

I don't actually have a life motto, but I do like hearing other people's. I'll find one that jives with me eventually, till then I survive.

[–] RyanLiu@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"You can't find the truth, you pick the lie you like best."

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 7 months ago

What's wrong with "I don't know"?

[–] GCanuck@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

No murders. Everything else you can apologize for.

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Keep on keepin' on...

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather have the ugly truth than pretty lies.

[–] Manalith@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago

Reminds me of a line out of a book, don't remember which one, but it was along the lines of 'if you can't say yes, then answer anyway, because I'd rather die with the answer than live with the question'

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

In your deathbed you'll regret more the things you didn't do than what you did

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on glue.

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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Take it sleazy! Maximum effort all the time has only ever gotten me exhausted and useless. Save your strength for when you need it.

(at least, that works for me)

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Laziness means getting to things only when necessary. It's just, sometimes necessary is much earlier than you'd think

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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

"I'm just a monkey lookin' at a monolith." said in the strong southern drawl possible.

Very good for technical situations where I'm stumped.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Dont break the weekend rules

  • Do NOT add to the population
  • Do NOT subtract from the population
  • Do not ever do anything that will have you end up in the newspaper, hospital or jail.
    • If you do end up in jail, establish dominance quickly.

Also dont do anything you would be afraid to explain to the paramedics.

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[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Schlimmer geht immer"

It can always be worse.

Not really my motto but a phrase I find myself thinking often in the last couple months.

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[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

If you're the smartest person in the room, then you're in the wrong room.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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[–] waz@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Don't be "that guy".

Depending on the situation, whatever "that guy" is will be different, but generally I try not to be "that guy". Very rarely "that guy" is a good guy, and then the whole philosophy breaks down, but most of the time that's not the case, and I am happy trying not to be "that guy".

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

"Don't give a shit."

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

If you don't know why, somebody else does.

Too strange to live, too rare to die by HST.

Sums up my life pretty well.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

anything you know could be wrong

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