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Muster your wits; stand in your own defence... -- William Shakespeare
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. -- Les Brown
For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own. -- Sheri L. Dew
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
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
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
You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith. -- Julia Cameron
I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining. -- Michael Hutchence
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
There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition. -- Cynthia Ozick
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. -- Reba McEntire
I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English. -- Sharad Pawar
Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's something about that song that's really timeless, and I never get bored or feel like I have to muster something up. -- Dave Gahan
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human. -- Elizabeth Edwards
It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved. -- Wilfred Burchett
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. -- Paracelsus
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
There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning. -- J. C. Ryle
Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming he would fight the Great Depression with the same resolve he would muster against a foreign foe, were aimed at reassuring Americans. -- Christina Romer
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
A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker. -- Anne Bancroft
You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster. -- Alex Steffen
Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it. -- Orison Swett Marden
There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day. -- James Dobson
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
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. -- Martin Rees
I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it. -- Edward P. Jones
In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster. -- Haruki Murakami
Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier. -- Ann Voskamp
I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster. -- Marcus Mumford
The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals. -- Jamie Fellner
If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that. -- Mindy Kaling
Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir -- Carrie Fisher
Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement. -- John Maus
Winning coaches must treat mistakes like copperheads in the bedclothes - avoid them with all the energy you can muster. -- Darrell Royal
Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands. -- Peter Cosgrove
May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no," courage to say, "yes," for courage counts. -- Thomas S. Monson
The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster. -- Lucian Freud
Part ways with your perception of reality, allow the unknown and your curiosity muster into a visual you've never allowed yourself to see. -- Elizabeth Lomeli
Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary "This day sucks. -- Jeaniene Frost
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
We could never muster the strength to make lasting changes in our lives. That's why we must rely on God's strength to transform us. -- Alisa Hope Wagner
It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster. -- Kerry Emanuel
The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster. -- Terry Eagleton
I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster. -- Arthur Ashe
It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment. -- Michael Weisskopf
As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again. -- Michelle Forbes
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I applied everything that I could muster creatively to this mission to find a way to create a new 'Jurassic Park' movie for a new generation. -- Colin Trevorrow
You think I'd cheat on you?" I demanded with all the innocent outrage I could muster. "With another guy, no. With a cheeseburger . . . in a heartbeat. -- Lisa Kleypas
Winning takes character. Workers get the most out of themselves. When a body has limited talent, it must muster all its resources of character to overcome adversity. -- Pete Carril
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper -- John Updike
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. -- Andrew Saul
Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]? -- Thomas S. Monson
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. -- Josh Kilmer-Purcell
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. -- Edward Kennedy
We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world. -- Wess Stafford
Everyone talks to their dog, and then in your mind the dog talks back. A talking dog can provide the words that a stunted protagonist finds difficult to muster. -- Mike Mills
I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project. -- Louis Finkelstein
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. -- Franz Grillparzer
I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining -- Michael Hutchence
Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest. -- Isaac Asimov
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. -- James Harvey Robinson
Now, I've been known to be attractive on special occasions, and I do my best to project as much beauty as I can muster from deep inside, though I often fail. -- Terry McMillan
I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is. -- Diane Ackerman
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. -- Carl Sagan
... 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 ... -- Anne Morice
Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade. -- Ben Hecht
I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with as much dignity and integrity as I can muster. -- Cliff Curtis
To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me. -- David James Duncan
Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street. -- Steven Soderbergh
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm. -- Bertrand Russell
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. -- Douglas Groothuis
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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

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