Moxie Quotes

• Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

  Peter McWilliams

  Perseverance, Persistence, Bravery

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• I got Moxie, I'm so damn foxy
  Industry try to block me like cops and paparazzi.

  Lauryn Hill

  Block, Cocky, Cop

  "Song: 'Take It Easy'". 2005.

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• While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.

  Robert Genn

  Community, May, Obsession

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• Use vitamins in place of drugs. This takes some moxie to do, for we have been taught to be consumers of medicine. We have been taught that anything cheap and safe cannot possibly be effective.

  Andrew Saul

  Medicine, Drug, Use

  "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

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• There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

  Steve Buscemi

  Wise, Growing Up, Heart

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• My dancing came about as a way to be cool, actually. I knew early on that I was not a street kid. I didn't have the moxie, what it took to run the streets with the dudes that I grew up wanting to emulate. But I had a huge need to be accepted, so I found that I could be the party king. I did drugs really well, and I partied really well.

  Michael K. Williams

  Running, Kings, Party

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My mother didn't feel sorry for herself, she was left with no child support, no alimony at a very young age, with a child to raise, a high school education and she just figured it out. She didn't complain, she didn't rely upon government, she relied upon her own skill set, her own self confidence, her own drive in moxie and her own duty to me and her and she relied upon her family and her faith.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Mother, Sorry, Children

  CPAC Interview, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. February 23, 2017.

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• I don't really collect anything. I mean, if I see a piece of Moxie soda memorabilia, I'll probably buy it. I'm a sucker for regional soda brands and forgotten histories and that sort of thing.

  John Hodgman

  Mean, Pieces, Soda

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Needless to say, I was impressed by Felicia [Day] and her moxie with how to do a web series. I mean, she's the queen of the web.

  Brent Spiner

  Queens, Mean, Series

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.

  John Hodgman

  Bottles, Soda, Masonic

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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