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What is your favourite saying that you would live your life by?

Everyone loves to quote a saying, sometimes they live their lives by it. One of my favourite sayings is "Every contact leaves a trace" this applies to science and for day to day living. I will never forget this saying as it was delivered in a lecture at New Scotland Yard by a senior police officer. Yahoo Answers is a good example of this because everytime you answer a question you leave a trace of the kind of person you are.

I would like some sayings that have influenced your life or you live to the ideals of the saying. Have fun.

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Thanks! I'll go through my list of quotes and try to stop at 10.

    "Who you are is more important than what you do"

    “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

    “Pres. Lincoln: I agree with you sir, and the best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”

    God grant me the serenity

    to accept the things I cannot change;

    courage to change the things I can;

    and wisdom to know the difference. --Reinhold Niebuhr

    If you stand for a reason, be prepared to stand alone. If you fight for a cause, fight even if there is no hope. If you fall on the ground, fall as a seed...that grows back to fight again.

    When you're forced to stand alone, you realize what you have in you.

    Stand up to what you think is right, even if it means you have to stand alone.

    “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” ~ Albert Einstein

    “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”

    “We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.” ~ Albert Einstein

    “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”~ Albert Einstein

    “Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”

    “A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed”

    “Any move trying to cover up the cause of the accident and any passive attitude toward the probe are deemed deception and a defiance of law.”

    “There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools”

    The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall. ~ Confucius

    “If you can't, you must. If you must, you can.” - Anthony Robbins

    “Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.”

    “All our lives we search for someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance the song of heartbreak and hope all the while, wondering if somewhere, somehow there is someone searching for us”

    Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, Personal Integrity, Humility, Courtesy, Wisdom, Charity. – William Menninger

    “He is inside as well as outside all beings, animate and inanimate. He is incomprehensible because of His subtlety. He is very near as well as far away.” ~ Bhagavad Gita

    I lost count....I could keep going with this for all eternity!

  • 1 decade ago

    The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

    It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

    Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

    Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.

    May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.

    Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too

    The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

    Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

    When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying. !

    Hope this Helps!:)

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    6 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    I loved that quote, and it's so true! Every single one of us has a reason for being here, because everyone effects the whole world in a certain way.

    I like this quote: "Life's like a bicycle- when it gets tough, you know you're going up."

    My friend was going through a hard time and needed to be reminded of that sentence once.

    I also like this one:

    "When the world turns its back on you...

    pinch it in the butt!"

    ;)

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Change Your Thinking Change Your Life. DR.Norman Vincent Peale The power Of positive Thinking..

  • Alene
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    I can't say I always live my life by it, but the Golden Rule is my goal to strive for.

  • 1 decade ago

    "The Floggings will continue until morale improves"

    "No good deed goes unpunished"

    A St. Louis Park, Minnesota Police Officer

  • Joya
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    "Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail.

    Think of it: ALWAYS."

    --- Mahatma Gandhi

    And, also,

    "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment." Mark 12:30

  • A Girl
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    "Live every day as if it is your last." "Be yourself, your friends don't want anyone else!" "Life is short, have FUN!!" <-- lol, that one i made up..or maybe it really is a quote? hah..lol. "If you let people take a piece of you, one by one, what is left of you?" --> this next one is my favourite one!!!!!! "Life on a planet is born of woman." i'll think of more, but for right now this is it. "Laughter is the best medicine."

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