Life mottos

What are some of your favourite life mottos? Here are some mottos that I try to live by, to make the most of my pathetically short time on earth:

When you stop trying to change others and work on changing yourself, your world changes for the better.
This motto has an especially powerful effect on me as it has constantly been a sore point in my life, and continues to shape the kind of relationships that I have with the people around me. I always (and still) expect others to change to suit me, instead of the other way round. I've been accused of being self-centred and thinking that the world revolves around me (hey, I don't deny it totally!). It is still a daily challenge for me to learn that, in order for my life to change, it has to start from within first.

It's your choice - will you choose to be a victim or the victor?
Staring at the wall is one of my favourite pastimes. When things don't turn out my way, instead of telling myself that tomorrow is another day, I tend to think or assume the worst and start to wallow in depression. I have to struggle to remind myself that winning is merely a state of mind, and who doesn't want to come out a winner?

There is no such thing as luck. Success comes from actually doing it.
If you want to change your life, do something about it instead of sitting around like a plant, or blaming your stars for being out of whack. I do not believe in luck. No doubt, everything happens for a reason. But you have a choice, and your life is ultimately the choices that you make.

Identify what you want and go for it.
I was born a go-getter. I stop at nothing to get what I want. I will exhaust all avenues before I say die. Failure is not an option. Well, most of the time anyways :-p

Failure is only a fact when you give up. Everyone gets knocked down, the question is: Will you get back up?
I'm fortunate that I have yet to let anything defeat me, yet. Even when I encountered a crisis at the workplace a year ago, I had angels watching my back (bless them) and I came out relatively unscathed. The episode shook me up pretty bad though but the good thing was that I had nothing to hide and furthermore, my strengths were a welcoming asset which is something that belongs to me only and no one can take that away.