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mine is "never lose your punk rock attitude" but i don't think that would get me the job - although, i'm in a creative field so i could spin it.!
I like to live by the old standard "Check yourself before you wreck yourself" - also something that would not get me a job.
I have two - "live passionately and accomplish things" is my more ambitious one. Sometimes I don't quite live up to the passionate part, so I have a less-lofty motto as well: "don't be useless."
i actually think Simon Doonan was the person who said mine first and he's creative director of Barney's which is a pretty amazing job!
@wildstyle & @kittyachi: LOL!! I like those! But in my field (healthcare administration) I think they would show me the door.
@Entangled: HAHA that's what I wish that was the personal mission statement of some of the people I've worked with. "don't be useless" is perfect!
I have a lot for myself. My business is different :-)
"those who save one life, save the world entire." by Oscar Schindler.
"A woman must hide her heart in the heart of God so that a man must go there to find it."
"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!" Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"2 people who speak make more noise than 10,000 who are silent" Napoleon Bonaparte
"if my muscles ache, it's because I've used 'em. It's hard for me to walk up them steps now, its 'cuz I walked up 'em every night to lay next to a man who loved me. I got a few wrinkles here and there, but I've layed under thousands of skies with sunny days. I look and feel this way, well cuz I drank and I smoked. I lived and I loved, danced, sang, sweat and screwed my way thorough a pretty damn good life if you ask me. Getting old ain't bad. Getting old, that's earned." The Guardian
Those aren't so much "mission statements" but quotes which dictate how I live my life.
@Virgina (making um, "rock hand") - that's better than mine i think!
"Life isn't a dress rehearsal."
I say this more as motivation to get dressed up, but it certainly has other applications!
"That which does not kill you makes you stronger." - Nietzsche
"Cowards die many times before their deaths." - Caesar
And, on a less depressing note, "Citius. Altius. Fortius." - The Olympic motto.
These are great!
@ribbons: that one can definitely be applies to other things!
While I'm reading these, I'm also picturing saying some of them during job interviews...and it makes me laugh! Nice break for my brain from studying business law. ugghhh
I guess my motto is more or less: When things get harder, you're getting closer to your goal.
And courtesy of my friends: Legality is so overrated.
Yeah, that'll get me a job. As a pirate. Yarr!
Wouldn't say it in a job interview, necessarily, but "I want to love first, and live incidentally" is my personal motto.
But I guess I could spin it to mean passion and pride inevitably lead to quality work.
mine is "but as for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord" but that might be totally awkward in an interview!
Life is what you make of it.
Totally true. Your life is all about the choices that YOU make. Go with it, have fun with it :)
"i have all the time in the world for what's important"
keeps me from spinning out of control when things start getting hectic
@Lovebird: that's how i approach a lot of things in life too!
"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. " - Thoreau
:-) To live passionately, to never regret, to always learn, to reflect and stand by my Faith in all I do, and to love and accept all without judgement regardless of their walk of life, experiences, or circumstance.
1. Pray
2. You can change fat but you cant change ugly
3. Trust yourself to handle the uncertainty in life
I wrote mine 10 years ago at a Rotary Youth Leadership event, when I was a sophomore in HS, and I'm proud that it still rings true to me.
"My mission is to improve, maintain, and accept the standards against which I hold myself and others." ~me ;)
I wrote it because I always want to do better, be better (improve), set and keep a high standard (maintain) and sometimes need to accept that what I or others is doing is the best that can be (accept).
My other one, not written by me is:
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." ~some guy named Plato ;)
Mine is "Every little bit helps." It makes me feel better about just giving $10 a charity or trying to recycle more.
1) A little vanity and pride never hurt anyone (aka don't let yourself fall apart just b/c you get married/have kids/get old...)
2) Love, but don't lose yourself in the process.
3) My friend says: there is no beauty without creation...and I've definitely adopted it from her over the past few years!
4) And, my token phrase....rock on with your bad self.
My favorite that is also my email sig line is one I read from a Architect Organization for interns entering into the field.
Live In The Present. Believe In The Future.
I think it's such a truthful powerful statement.
@Gerbera: That is an awesome one! It is powerful and can be applied to anything and everything in life.
@ejs: I have to say that rock on with your bad self is my favorite on your list!
@Jenirae: I love that you've stuck by your mission statement for 10 years! I think a lot of people change theirs at various points in their lives so that's great that you've kept yours the same--I like it!
@Briane: It's true...every little bit does help!
@3M: Your #2 made me laugh!!
Chin up! Or fake it til you make it. Gotten me through MANY a bad day! Doesn't always work, but most of the time it does! First one always does. Kinda lame, but you know.
Kind of long, but...
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton." - Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow
It reminds me to appreciate everything I have, and not take any part of life for granted. It sounds cheesy, but it's true!
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One of my classmates got asked this question recently when she interviewed with a consulting firm...it got me thinking that I would have absolutely no idea how to answer this on the spot! But I think it's a good question...
What is YOUR personal mission statement?