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“You may not be able to convince everyone around you that you're doing the right thing, but you don't have to subject yourself to endless second-guessing from others, either.”
“You may not be able to directly control your partner, but as Rick learned, you may be able to influence your interaction with your partner by changing your own behavior. This is called working on your relationship.”
“You may not be able to do all you find out, but make sure you find out all you can do.”
Source: 7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher
“You may not be able to do anything about how you feel; but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions...but you can choose to let that offence sink you down or not....”
“You may not be able to erase all the pain and damage of abuse, but healing is in your hands.”
“You may not be able to hit all the notes. That's OK. You may not have the clearest tone. You may not have the greatest range. But if you can inhabit your song, you can communicate.”
“You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear through all eternity.”
“You may not be able to measure God's love, but you can certainly experience it.”
“You may not be able to predict the time of a tornado, earthquake or the Lord's return. But you can know for a fact that He is coming back. Work today to share the escape route of God's grace with others, before the night cometh.”
“You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.”
“You may not be aware, ma douce, but not all vampyre have a kindred, some will live out their existence without such beauty in their lives. I have waited five hundred years for you.”
“You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!”
“You may not be beautiful in the traditional sense, but that doesn't mean you aren't lovely all the same. Uniquely lovely, with an inner radiance that far transcends what passes for pretty these days. Take your eyes, for example."
"My eyes?"
"Hmmm. Have you ever noticed how they change color with your moods?"
She shook her head.
"Well, they do. When you're happy, they're a pure pristine blue, like twin brushstrokes of sky. And when you're displeased or lost in serious thought, they shift to grey. Silvery, sensual grey, the sort that ripples like dawn mist over a lake. I can think of no other woman with eyes like yours. Magnificent, soul-deep eyes in which a man could drown if he weren't careful.”
Source: Seduced by His Touch
“You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.”
Source: Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear
“You may not be favoured by men, but when God favours you, you will flourish.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“You may not be fully in control of every door that opens and closes, but you are in control of your own thoughts. Do not allow those doors to control your thoughts.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“You may not be happy with your life. All you have to do is to refuse to be unhappy! Because the worst thing is to get used to be unhappy!”
“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”
“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?”
“You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.”
“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”
“You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.”
“You may not be responsible for getting knocked down. But you're certainly responsible for getting back up.”
“You may not be succeeding now, but you must not stop seeing yourself as a successful person in life. What you visualize can become your reality in the long run.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“You may not be successful today, but that does not mean you will never succeed in the future. Keep working and praying.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“You may not be talking with each other. But that does not mean that you have stopped caring for her. She is capable of taking decisions for herself. She is capable of facing life all by herself. You want her to be free. You want her to find her own way. Just once in a while, let her know that you still care for her.”
“You may not be the happiest wife, Arion, but I’m told this is why God invented Saks and Xanax.”
Source: Kill Switch
“You may not be the one standing out from a crowd, but you are the one that makes sure everyone in that crowd is still standing.”
Source: Gambling for the Lost Lord's Love
“You may not be the richest, but you can be grateful for what you have. You may not be the fastest, but you can work on your goals with so much diligence. You may not be the strongest, but you can use your talents to make a difference.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“You may not be the smartest, or the fastest, or the most talented. But you CAN work the hardest.”
“You may not be the smartest, richest or best looking person but you're probably not the dumbest, ugliest or poorest either.”
“You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.”
“You may not be where you want to be, but you need to align your dreams with your purpose so that you can be where God wants you to be.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“You may not be where you want to be in life, but you can’t speed up your journey by depriving yourself of the inner peace that flows from being grateful for how far you have come.”
“You may not be where you want to be, but you can look back and be thankful you're not where you used to be.”
“You may not be winning, but this doesn't mean you are losing”
“You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things.”
“You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.”
“You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. ... The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.”
Source: Life of Pi
“You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!”
Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition
“You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name.”
“You may not believe it now, but the human race only went on because we loved one another. We were better than the animals because love came before sex to build families and defend them against the world.”
Source: The Lifecycle of Suns
“You may not believe my words, but will you believe and have faith in your own actions?”
“You may not believe that the world's intelligence agencies now kill their opponents and unsuitable figures, not with a gunshot but with a medical bullet, and no one can prove it. The corrupt media never investigate it, and doctors are no longer the Messiah; they have become butchers except for a few. Cancer and other diseases can be through magic and chemicals; how can be that?”
“You may not believe this. No one believes this, but it is true.”
Source: Winner Take Nothing
“You may not change the whole world by helping one person, but to that person, you change everything.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.”
Source: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
“You may not control what others do or say, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Keep adding value to people around you and make your impact unstoppable.”