Muster Quotes

• If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

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• Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

  John Updike

  Morning, Character, Fog

  John Updike (2012). “Collected Poems, 1953-1993”, p.186, Knopf

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• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Best You Ever: 365 Ways to be Richer, Happier, Thinner, Smarter, Younger, Sexier, and More Relaxed - Each and Every Day". Book by Rebecca Swanner (p. 324), October 18, 2010.

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• For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. And that's why, when I say I'm a blues man, that's a very serious vocation - to muster the courage to find your own unique voice, to forge your distinctive style in the world, to leave your imprint in the sands of time in such a way that your singularity, your individuality, remains something that people have to come to terms with.

  Cornel West

  Unique, Men, Who I Am

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

  Gamaliel Bailey

  Doubt, Majority, Preference

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• And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.

  Julianna Baggott

  Art, Dirty, Book

  "Novelist Walks Into a Bar or Facebook or Wherever" by Julianna Baggott, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2011.

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• Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

  Ted Lindsay

  Memories, Winning, Night

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• Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.

  Thomas Muster

  Australia, Way

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• I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.

  Thomas Muster

  Umpires, Careers, Goal

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• I feel like I'm going to HURL. Which, even if I wanted to do, I couldn't do, because I haven't eaten. I can't even drag myself out of my room. And while I'd be able to muster the strength to roundhouse Fang until he begged for MERCY, I'de be mush around an Eraser.

  James Patterson

  Able, Rooms, Maximum Ride

  "Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel (Maximum Ride, Book 6)". Book by James Patterson, February 5, 2010.

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• The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Our Lives

  "Elizabeth Edwards dies after battle with cancer". www.cnn.com. December 7, 2010.

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• You can't do anything as long as you are afraid of what might happen. Fear clouds opportunities, erases possibilities, and limits the ability to move beyond the place in which the mind is stuck. No matter how difficult we think the problem is, we must muster up the courage to face it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, Opportunity, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from May 31, 2016

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• If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Giving, Speech, Way

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• In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

  Haruki Murakami

  Way, Intensity

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.240, Random House

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• There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I
  do like it in others. O, we need it. We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Fun, Heart, Light

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1855). “Nature and Human Nature”, p.56, New York : Stringer and Townsend

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• The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more indelibly than any words you muster at him. Not absolutely everything can or should have to be explained, and particularly not to everybody. But a concussion is a value-judgment anyone gets the point of.

  Kenny Smith

  Pain, Memories, Philosophy

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• When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Acceptance, Brave

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• Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

  Harold Washington

  Political, Needs, Never Quit

  Harold Washington, Alton Miller (1988). “Climbing a Great Mountain: Selected Speeches of Mayor Harold Washington”

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• Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.

  John Quincy Adams

  Song, Men, Long

  JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1848). “POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY”, p.15

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• Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.

  Christopher Lasch

  Rejection, Parent, Grace

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• Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you still say, 'My Lord,' even though his ways are not clear to you? Will you keep going-with all the grace and grit and faith you can muster-and live in hope that one day God will set everything right. Will you trust that God is good? ... Ultimately, the choice everyone faces is the choice between hope and despair. Jesus says, 'Choose hope.'

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Pain, Choices

  John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.198, Zondervan

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• It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.

  Stephanie Mills

  Responsibility, Artist, Discipline

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.132, Island Press

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• The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

  Lucian Freud

  Way, Observation, Concentration

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• And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.

  Chris Murray

  Men, Energy, Charlatans

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• Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

  Ann Voskamp

  Stress, Anxiety, Energy

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