Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

Clean your room. ;)

Not one, but a couple I utter everyday (to my kids):

1. "You get what you get and you don't get upset" 2. "Don't worry about that which you cannot control"

The last is the deepest one which I struggle the most with: "When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60, you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place!" - attributed to Churchill, but looks unlikely as he also said "It’s a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations." - https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/08/viral-imag...

I’ve co-opted Nike’s motto, and say it to myself in my head when I’m trying to get something done and am stumbling over anxiety, distraction, procrastination, perfectionism, etc.

Just do it.

May be trite, but it can be helpful for me.

"Read the f* manual!"

Seriously, a lot of questions anwer themselves after I read the related manual. Ever since I got that as a reply on my StackOverflow question, it becomes my motto.

“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” Marcus Tullius Cicero