The Three Most Important Mottos that I Live My Life by

A motto is a guiding principle to someone’s life, or a short saying that they go by. Some people may have many mottos they go by. However, I have three most important mottos that I believe in. Which are “Talk is cheap, until you hire a lawyer”, “Seize the day”, and “fall down seven times, rise up eight times”.

One of the important mottos that I go by is “Talk is cheap, until you hire a lawyer.” This motto means that talking is pretty useless unless you can back up the things that you say; and until you can find someone that will do everything and talk for you (lawyer). You shouldn’t “talk the talk” until you can start taking actions instead of just saying what you’re going to do or want to do. Also, lawyers are very expensive to hire so once you hire a lawyer, or someone that will do everything for you, talk won’t be cheap anymore, it will be expensive. I believe in this because if someone just keeps on saying that he is so tough or that he is the best, it doesn’t necessarily mean that he can back up his words.

Another motto that I go by is “Seize the day”. This motto means do what you can today, because you never know what is going to happen tomorrow. I go by this motto because for example, if you don’t do your homework today thinking that tomorrow you will have time to finish it, you might receive a lot more additional homework tomorrow and you will not have enough time to complete them all. Also, this means to live your life the fullest every day, because tomorrow an accident might happen and you might lose your life and the fact that you didn’t live your life to the fullest while it lasted, is saddening for you.

The third motto that I go by is “fall down seven times, rise up eight times.” This means you should never give up because after every downfall, you can rise up again higher than you fell. I believe in this because if you stop trying after you fail once, you will never achieve what you really want.

In conclusion, those are the three most important mottos that I live my life by. However, other people have many other mottos that they live their live by, so these three are not the only ones.

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