Are there any sayings or quotes you live by?

My favourite is, "The wolf climbing the hill is always hungrier than the one on top". Whats funny is that line came from commentary of Hall of Famer Jessie Ventura.
Are there any that you use a lot or live life by? Would be good to hear others.

never slap a fat dog

Pigs are fed, hogs are slaughtered.

I am a fan of the Japanese Proverb (excuse my butchering) I no naka no kawazu taikai o shirazu - roughly translated to something like...A frog in a well does not know of the great sea.

This could be interpreted in a few different ways, but my broad application of this is always remembering that your own experiences and those limitations, directly affect and frame your outlook and perspective. I think of this for myself but also for other people, knowing that for many their world-view might be limited in scope. Also a sort of reminder to continually broaden your horizons and try to learn more and expand your perspective. The interesting thing about this in modern application, is that we have so many tools now, and ways to learn about other places, other viewpoints, other cultures, whereas in the past we were so limited geographically and physically. I guess....having an open mind and continually challenging yourself to learn and expand your experiences.

EDIT:  I thought of another, haha, which is from Dr. Seuss:

"You have brains in your head.  You have feet in your shoes.  You can steer yourself any direction you choose.  You're on your own.  And you know what you know.  And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go"
 

 

Two things my first boss said to me that always stuck with me

"Never lend money expecting to get it back."
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"If you listen long enough, people will tell you everything you want to know."

Feelings aren't facts.

Silence is sometimes the best answer -- Dalai Lama

Murphy's Law. "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong".

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. - Theodore Roosevelt

It's good to learn from your mistakes, it's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
If you never fail you're not pushing yourself to your limits.
I have never learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
It's a penis stretcher.
Everything is a sex toy if you try hard enough.
Once a philosopher twice a pervert.

A bit of a classic, but "Give a man a fish, he will eat one day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for his lifetime"
Also, "Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."

Never wrestle with a pig - the pig just gets angry and you just get dirty.

So and so is dumber than a box of rocks.

Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.

"Dave, there comes a time in every friendship when you have to say "I never liked you. Get lost!" - Bill McNeal, Newsradio

An unexamined life is not worth living - Plato, Apology

To thine own self be true

"It is a great skill to be able to guide your luck while still waiting for it" - some guy

"Wise men say forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza" -(Michaelangelo 1990)

"If it bleeds, we can kill it." - Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer (1987)

"Never let your schooling get in the way of your education." - professor I had in college

"Its better to stay silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" ~ Douglas Adams

Trying is the first step toward failure.

Weaseling out way out of things is what separates us from the animals...... except for the weasel.

Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand.

This is the one I actually would have used if someone didn't beat me to it.

 

"I have a theory that everyone is an idiot, including me. That's my basic theory of all Humanity. The only thing that is different is that we're idiots at different things at different times. So, I think the main thing is that as long as everyone thinks that they're the smart one and everyone else is an idiot...not realizing that sometimes they're the idiot and the other person's the smart one...that's the basic tension in life." - Scott Adams

frequently attributed to Mark Twain, but unverified