Might Quotes - Page 16

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

What we are speaks so loudly that our children might not hear what we say

Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.

Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.

Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.

There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

Everything isn't black and white, but for me it might as well be.

I am open to [the notion of theistic revelation], but not enthusiastic about potential revelation from God. On the positive side, for example, I am very much impressed with physicist Gerald Schroeder's comments on Genesis 1. That this biblical account might be scientifically accurate raises the possibility that it is revelation.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well as a recognized duty, to listen patiently to what might be said to him upon any subject under consideration....Neither, I need scarcely say, was he in the habit of talking, much less boasting, of his own achievements.

Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.

Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.

You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.

A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.