Trying to find a good phrase or quote for a tattoo?

Question

i got my tattoo fully designed and is all ready to go only thing im missing is a phrase or saying!!! i want it short and sharp something to like death before dishonor or for those i love i will sacrifice but a little more original or a few more ideas so i have things to choose from.. if everyone could give me a few ideas that would be good thanks everyone..

Answer 1

Opinions vary.  

Patrick Swayze in "Roadhouse"

I love tats.  They are like the movie "Fight Club".  If you understand, you understand.  If you don't, you don't.    I recently had a vine with flowers and a lizard hanging off it tattooed on my hip.  I love it.  

Answer 2

''Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today''

''I want life in every word, to the extent that it's absurd''

'' The past is practice''

''Aut viam Inveniam Aut Faciam'' - Latin for "Either I will find a way or I will make one."

"wake your dreams"

"anything I could desire, I already have"

''ad astra per aspera'' - Latin for to the stars through difficulties (Kansas)

Fata viam invenient - Latin for The Fates will find a way

Manus manum lavat - Latin for Hand washes hand, i.e., one hand washes the other

Mens regnum bona possidet - Latin for An honest heart is a kingdom in itself (Seneca)

Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet- Latin for He who feared he would not succeed sat still (Horace)

Ab imo pectore - From the bottom of the chest. (from the heart) (Julius Caesar)

Accipere quam facere praestat injuriam - It is better to suffer an injustice than to do an injustice

Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent - Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. (Publilius Syrus)

Alis volat propiis - She flies with her own wings (state motto of Oregon)

Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labi - The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. (still waters run deep)

Astra inclinant, non necessitant - The stars incline; they do not determine

Astra non mentiuntur, sed astrologi bene mentiuntur de astris - The stars never lie, but the astrologs lie about the stars

Aquila non captat muscas - The eagle doesn't capture flies (don't sweat the small things)

Irish phrases in Gaellic:

PHRASE: Is maith an scathan suil charad

PRONOUNCED: iss mot on scah-hawn sewell karr-add

MEANING: A friends eye is a good mirror

PHRASE: An rud a lionas an tsuil lionann se an croi

PRONOUNCED: on rud ah lean-uss on sewell lean-onn shay on kree

MEANING: What fills the eye fills the heart

PHRASE: Ni ceart go cur le cheile

PRONOUNCED: knee keart guh kurr leh kay-leh

MEANING: There is no strength without unity

PHRASE: Ni heolas go haontios!

PRONOUNCED: knee hyeo-luss guh hain-chiss

MEANING: You cant know me without living with me!

PHRASE: Olann an cat cluin bainne leis!

PRONOUNCED: ull-onn on kot clew-in bonn-yeh lesh

MEANING: The quiet cat also drinks milk!

PHRASE: Eist moran agus can beagan!

PRONOUNCED: aisht more-on og-us con byug-on

MEANING: Hear much and say little!

PHRASE: De reir a cheile a thogtar na caisleain!

PRONOUNCED: deh rare ah kay-lee a hug-tar nah cosh-lawn

MEANING: It takes time to build castles!

PHRASE: Is minic a gheibhean beal oscailt diog dunta!

PRONOUNCED: iss minick ah gav-awnn bail os-kuly dee-ug doon-ta

MEANING: An open mouth often catches a closed fist!

PHRASE: Gra Go Deo

PRONOUNCED: graw guh djoe

MEANING: Love forever

PHRASE: Is maith an t-anlann an t-ocras.

PRONOUNCED: Iss mot on tawn/lawn on tuck/russ?

MEANING: Hunger is a good sauce

Greek phrases:

Γνῶθι σεαυτόν

    Gnōthi seauton.

    "Know yourself"

Δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω

    Dōs moi pā stō, kai tan gān kināsō.

    "Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth"

Νίψον ἀνομήματα μὴ μόναν ὄψιν

    Nipson anomēmata mē monan opsin

    "Wash the sins not only the face"

Τὰ πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει.

    Ta panta rhei kai ouden menei.

    "Everything flows, nothing stands still."

῎Ωδινεν ὄρος καὶ έτεκε μῦν.

    ÃƒÂ…Œdinen oros kai eteke myn.

    Make a mountain out of a molehill

Russian phrase:

Phrase:Положись на меня

Meaning: Depend on me

Pronounced: olozhIs` na menyA

Quotes:

In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away

- shing xiong

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

- Erica Jong

"I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry."

Art Buchwald

The best things in life aren't things.

Spanish Sayings:

Más vale pájaro en mano que cien volando. A bird in the hand is worth more than 100 flying. [A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.]

Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente. Eyes that do not see, heart that does not feel.

No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano. Not through much awaking early does the dawn come earlier.

No hay mal que por bien no venga. There is not bad from which good doesn't come.

Answer 3

hmm sorry i only know long ones, i have tryed to look for short ones but no luck

..x..

Answer 4

O xein angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tede

keimetha tois keinon rhemasi peithomenoi  

Answer 5

How about.."Please remove in 10 years when I fully regret it"

Answer 6

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of

Love cannot save you from your own fate

Brevity is the soul of wit

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes

We are all either fools or undiscovered geniuses

Fortune favors the brave

Where there is love there is life

We need not think alike to love alike

Courage is fear that has said its prayers

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

Answer 7

proud to be an american

freedom doesnt come free

loyal to my country

loyalty, pride, sacrafice

Answer 8

No Better Friend Or Worse Enemy

Devotion Loyalty Pride

Mors Ex Tenebris (Death from the shadows)

Courage Conquers

Deeds Not Words

Celer et Audax  (Swift and Bold)

Vincere Est Vivere (To conquer is to live)

All of these are pretty distinguished military mottos.  

Answer 9

"I'd rather be hated for who I am then loved for who I am not."

-Anon