Words to live by.

[Camoninja]

"Good things come to those who wait work hard"
"Safety first"
"Look before leap"
"Gimme gimme never gets" (This was from I was little and still hadn't learned to respect other people's property)
"It's only a reflection on [insert name]" (someone does something bad to you, then people will know that person is bad, and won't trust them in the future. Sort of like Neopergoss's saying)
"Practice makes perfect"

My family has a huge amount of these sayings, and they come out whenever an appropriate situation comes. These are only the ones I can think of on the spot. I suppose you could say I live by all of them.

[Qwandri]

Prove your own worth to yourself, then take comfort in the fact that you'll never need compare yourself again.

[Nepycros]

Perception is the source of misunderstanding.

[pervepic]

A man got to do what a man got to do

[Chromatophore]

Boys will be boys

[Rastafla]

"The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason"

The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists; what is, is; and from this irreducible bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. It is the foundation from which life is embraced.

Thinking is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts nor are they a means to discover them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality; it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss that we refuse to see. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light. In rejecting reason, refusing to think, one embraces death.

"Care for those close to you and those around you."

[TheForbiddenOracle]

"Do what you love and love what you do."
"A man who moves a mountain begins with a pebble."
"Treat everyone how you would like to be treated."

[maverixk]

Bacon.
It means everything and nothing.

On a more serious note: "There's always gonna be someone who doesn't like you or agree with you. So when you run into that person, look at 'em for a moment, hear what they have to say, and move on."
I'm not sure what explanation I need to give for this one.

Not to be overcorrective, but practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent. If you practice something a thousand times the wrong way, you'll still be doing it less perfectly than someone who practiced it ten times the right way.

[ddevans96]

The fool will say what he does not know; the wise will not say what he does know.

[tyranim]

i dont really live by the saying, but i do live by what i took from it.
"No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side."
-terry goodkind
what it said to me: people always believe what they are doing is right and just. therefore, there is not a single man who is inherently evil, he only believes in something different than what you do.

also:
"War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."
-mao zedong

and:
"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
-voltaire

[Qwandri]

The fool will say what he does not know; the wise will not say what he does know.

"It is better to keep one's mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

[ddevans96]

They're not the same thing. That implies that speaking out would prove you to be wise