Best Muster Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Author:Orrin Woodward

“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.”

Years Bigs Night Winning Sides Goal Memories Effort Four Wonderful Battle Red Wings Cups Every Night Teammate Through The Years Stanley Muster Stanley Cup Wonderful Memories

Author:Ted Lindsay

“If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.”

Ifs World Children Country Would Be Responsibility Company Dying Determination Investing Very Good Developing Japan Good Business Muster Sense Of Responsibility Xerox

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“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.”

World Desire Artist Responsibility Duty Discipline Goodness Work Out Good Work Aesthetics Singularity Candor Muster Universality Radicalism

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“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.”

Ifs Men Want Should Littles Long Stills Song Wish Gold Score Muster Mint

Book:POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Source: POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY

“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.”

Easy Parent Accepting Grace Generations Rejection Parenthood Younger Generation Muster Obsolescence

Author:Christopher Lasch

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

Way Absolutes Observation Concentration Maximum Muster

Author:Lucian Freud

“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.'”

Knows Way Stills Pain Faces Choices Jesus Answers Lord Clear Grace One Day Despair Gods Will Going Away Keep Going Grit Hope And Despair Muster

Book:Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them

Source: Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them

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

Want Sometimes Seems Energy Easier Anxiety Stress Muster Stress And Anxiety

Author:Ann Voskamp

“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.”

Men Energy Muster Charlatans

Author:Chris Murray

“Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.”

Mean Eye Sex Fronts Pride Approach Shots Shame Sacred Revenge Generous Charm Contempt Scorn Maids Destroyers Muster

Author:John Armstrong

“The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.”

Humans Truth Is Humanism Ideology Bourgeois Muster

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that.”

Ifs Mind I Can Stage Muster Allure

Author:Mindy Kaling

“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?”

Needs Should Heart Made Light Fun Havens Balance Relation Spots Sunny Mirth Muster

Book:Nature and Human Nature

Source: Nature and Human Nature

“But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.”

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.”

World Life Moments Found Change Power Courage Environment Blame Misery Changing The World Our Environment Power To Change Muster Power To Change The World

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God.”

Giving Littles God Lying Opportunity Practice Virtue Produce Offers Prove Overcoming God Love Consideration Tenderness Good Work Our Love Obliged Reckoning Muster

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color and audacity as you can muster.”

Ifs Wells Might Boys Color Fit Prove Blue Wit Standing Out Audacity Muster

Author:Josh Kilmer-Purcell

“I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.”

People Action Courses Argument Muster

Author:Anne Morice

“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.”

People Men World Way Voice Term Style Serious Music Is Unique Remains Individuality Who I Am Sand Vocation Distinctive Singularity Muster Unique Voices Sands Of Time

Author:Cornel West

“I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should not rubbish moderate religious leaders like the Archbishop of Canterbury because I think we all agree that extreme fundamentalism is a threat, and we need all the allies we can muster against it.”

Thinking Needs Should Fighting Belief Religious Leader Particular Agree Threat Extremes Allies Fundamentalism Moderates Rubbish Religious Belief Muster Religious Leaders Canterbury

Author:Martin Rees

“For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.”

Challenges Holy Optimism Ghost Bless Holy Ghost Muster

Author:Sheri L. Dew

“Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.”

Writing Faces Achievement Impossibility Fury Muster

Author:John Maus

“Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.”

Men War Body Fighting Devil Soldier Staff Sailor Muster Baton

Book:White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war

Source: White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war

“Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.”

Hard Nations Strength Nationalism Honorable Majesty Muster Clamor

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.”

Ifs Kind Persons Today Kindness One Thing Regret Rewards What If Permission Good Will Muster Never Regret

Author:Steve Goodier

“Instead of concentrating on the war against poverty, global attention is focused on another kind of slaughter - on something that is intangible and yet being tackled by all the possible military means we can muster. And all the lofty declarations by world leaders about combatting poverty that were lauded by the General Assembly turned out to be damp squibs.”

World Kind Mean War Attention Leader Poverty Military Focused Declaration Assembly Slaughter Lofty Concentrating Intangible World Leader Damp Muster General Assembly

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me.”

Teacher Politician Tradition Doctors Patient Voters Powerlessness Passivity Muster Dumbbells

Author:Andrew Saul

“Don't decide that you're going to be a writer or musician and just expect it to happen because it's a big gamble and a lot less predictable than a conventional job. But you do increase the likelihood of success by working as hard as you can and holding yourself to the highest standard you can muster.”

Hard Bigs Happens Jobs Highest Musician Standards Increase Conventional Predictable Gamble Likelihood Muster

Author:Max Bemis

“In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that. Scenes are improvised. A character does or says something, and with as much spontaneity and schizophrenia as I can muster, another character responds. In this way, everything I write is spontaneous chain reaction and I'm running around playing leapfrog in my brain trying to "be" all my people.”

People Knows Way Writing Trying May Doe I Can Ends Character Running Given Brain Scene Reactions Crafts Chains Spontaneous Spontaneity Schizophrenia Muster Chain Reactions

Author:Richard Price

“Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.”

Way Australia Muster

Author:Thomas Muster

“Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of his career was that he has flung his whole life with all the determination and energy he could muster.”

Ifs Whole Energy Community Secret Half Careers Heard Determination Committed Whole Life Muster Theodore

Author:Orison Swett Marden

“No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his whole life, into it. It is not enough simply to have a general desire to accomplish something. There is but one way to do that; and that is, to try to be somebody with all the concentrated energy we can muster.”

Men World Way Trying Soul Enough Whole Desire Energy Force This World Accomplish Whole Life One Way Fling Muster

Author:Orison Swett Marden

“Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for 'conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.”

Ideas School Humanity Left Behinds Generations Style Conversation Evidence Settling Interpretation Absurdity Distrust Left Behind Disabled Disrespect Postmodernism Muster

Author:Daniel Dennett

“The statistics reveal a failure of nerve on the part of many Christians. They seem to be simply unable to muster the strength necessary to develop a tenacious commitment to the truthfulness of Scripture.”

Seems Christian Commitment Scripture Statistics Nerves Truthfulness Tenacious Muster

Author:Douglas Groothuis

“As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.”

Humans Looks Today Past Can Do Realizing Compassion Destiny Highest Responsible Salvation Aspiration Urges Muster

Author:Dan Barker

“Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.”

Children Soul Running Past Purpose Building Holes Layers Torn Abandonment Worth Living Life Worth Living Muster

Book:Your Native Land, Your Life

Source: Your Native Land, Your Life

“I could characterize nearly any spiritual practice as simply this: identify and quit, identify and quit, identify and quit. Identify the myriad forms of limitation and delusion we place upon ourselves, and muster the courage to quit each one. Little by little, deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.”

Littles Eye Spiritual Form Practice Shining Quitting Limitation Dawn Delusion Diamond Deep Inside Spiritual Practice Muster

Author:Bo Lozoff

“I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.”

Thinking Trying Art I Can Emotional Nourishment Factual Muster

Author:Jeffrey Lewis

“Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.”

Today Political Challenges Answers Tomorrow Congress Immigration Reform Yield Controversial Immigration Reform Muster Political Will

Author:Edward Kennedy

“Externalists reject any such view. I think that the idea that we can tell, simply by way of reflection, whether our beliefs are justified, is deeply commonsensical. More than that, the idea that responsible epistemic agents ought to reflect on their beliefs, and hold them only if they somehow pass muster, is utterly natural.”

Ifs Thinking Way Ideas Belief Natural Views Ought Reflection Responsible Agents Rejects Justified Muster

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played so dominant a role in the preceding centuries that believers often cannot conceive how non-believers can muster sufficient commitment to their own lives to get out of bed each morning, let alone the ethical wherewithal to regard others as deserving of moral regard. Once one "comes out" as an atheist, these are the inquisitions to which one is often subjected.”

Knows Humans Facts Answers Moral Roles Morning Century Bed Commitment Regard Atheist Believer Sufficient Ethical Dominant Deserving Inquisition Muster Non Believer

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“We must muster the courage, we must find the will, we must do what is necessary to build a truly transformative movement that will end the history and cycle of caste in America.”

Ends America Movement Cycles Castes Muster

Author:Michelle Alexander

“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.”

“I use all my skills that I can muster up, but the fun thing is that I find some untapped skills every once in a while. I get that from my daddy.”

I Can Use Fun Skills Daddy Muster Fun Things

Author:Reba McEntire

“Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.”

Knows Mean Helping Body Might Fighting Nature Common Health Healthy Disease Medicine Muster Baby Boy Death Nature

Author:Paracelsus

“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.”

Character Faces Morning Progress Willing Paper Blank Fog Another Day Dazzling Muster Misty Marshes Quicksand Chilled Blank Paper Misty Mornings

Book:Collected Poems, 1953-1993

Source: Collected Poems, 1953-1993

“The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.”

Way Mind Universe Examining Preconceptions Muster Unbiased

Book:Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

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