Top 100 You May Not Quotes
#1. 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.
Joel Osteen
#2. Whatever path bought you here
There is a reason why you came,
Though you may not know it now.
So, please open your ears and listen.
Listen to the message that Sedona has for you.
Ilchi Lee
#3. When you compete with someone as good or better than you, you may not always win, but you never lose.
Michael Josephson
#4. You may not believe it, but standing up to people is the only way to get through life with your mind intact. Nothing was gained by giving in.
Diana Palmer
#5. I believe in a democratic approach to fashion: if you feel good, then great. You may not look good, but it's not the problem.
Philip Treacy
#6. Make a change! It's all about you! You may not be able to prevent the bird from flying over your head; but you can prevent it from making a nest on your head!
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. Sometimes it is difficult to see the goodness in your life when you are in turmoil. Just remember that even during a storm, the sun is shining. You may not see it, but it is always there above the clouds, waiting to warm you again.
Karen Lynch
#8. Permit no man to make a mockery of you just because you may not be proficient in something. Remember you are gifted no matter how insignificant it may be, it's your prized possession, value it
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#9. You may not able to hear the song of your heart but the universe can.
Debasish Mridha
#10. If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fact you may not make it. And in doing that there shouldn't be bitterness. There should be a celebration. There should be an understanding of how lucky you are. That's how I feel.
Robby Benson
#11. Sometimes things will not go as planned, but don't lose hope. Stay focused on whatever you are trying to accomplish. There will be a breakthrough soon. Understand that all things take time. You may not be there yet, but you're on the right path towards success.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#12. I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out. The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you. You can live a good life no matter what's happened to you.
Joel Osteen
#13. Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.
Lori Lipman Brown
#14. The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
Christopher Hitchens
#15. Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.
Dalai Lama XIV
#16. Doing mistakes is as much a part of life as avoiding them. You may not get a second chance to do the same mistake, so, go on, give it a shot.
Manoj Arora
#17. Treat yourself like a fast person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck
you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.
Push: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, p. 214
Chalene Johnson
#18. Specialists can never practice their specialties too much. The danger is in not practicing enough. Make that mistake, and soon you may not be in the specialty business anymore.
Johnny Unitas
#19. I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.
Genevieve Padalecki
#20. Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender to what is. Some people may need more of that than others. If you choose presence in your daily life you may not need the drastic challenges.
Eckhart Tolle
#21. A murder is a challenge, an embarrassment, to the inner life of the dead one, almost a dishonor, like other violent events that may come upon you without warning. It is not certain that you may not have in some careless or driven way chosen to put yourself in the path of a murderer.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#22. You may not be given the whole story when you ask for guidance, only the part you are psychologically equipped to handle.
Catherine Carrigan
#23. The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.
Natalie Babbitt
#24. The world is changing, moving beneath our feet. We are in a war, children of the Red March, though you may not see it yet, may not feel it. We are in a war against everything you can imagine and armed only with our desire to oppose it.
Mark Lawrence
#25. If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.
Joel Salatin
#26. You may not plan for some things in life but your destiny will take you there.
Rita Zahara
#27. The Marine Corps is your family too. You may not have a mother here, but you have a shit pile of fathers, uncles, and brothers.
Bud Rudesill
#28. Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don't make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
Al Yankovic
#29. Adjusting to life's changes may be difficult and something you may not be looking forward to experiencing. Be gentle with yourself and you will find clarity on all levels of encouragement in places and by people you least expect. Remember as it has been said before: This too shall pass!
Steven Cuoco
#30. When you mature intellectually we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally you may not even want me.
Daniel Keyes
#31. If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.
Samuel Jackson
#32. You may not possess a body that everyone want to admire.
You may not possess wealth that everyone want to have.
However you should possess a character that will make you worthy to love.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#33. 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.
James Hillman
#34. You may not be able to find love, but if you give, you will get it back in return.
Debasish Mridha
#35. You may not be able to understand the world, but you can create your own world with your perception and imagination.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Friends are like stars. you may not see them, but you always know they're there.
Raven
#37. The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.
Steve Jobs
#38. YOU MAY NOT SUCCEED IN ONE DAY, BUT ONE DAY YOU WILL SUCCEED!
Kenan Crnkic
#39. By choosing to embrace and practice good values every day, you choose the higher course in life. And your life goes in a direction that you will always feel good about. You may not always get what you desire, but you will always be the person you desire to be.
John C. Maxwell
#40. Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like ... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.
Noel Tichy
#41. If anyone has a problem with Blaire then they need to take it up with me. She has a job here as long as she wants one. The three of you may not like it but I personally don't give a flying fuck. So get over it. She doesn't need this shit right now. Back off. Are we understood?
Abbi Glines
#42. God is never in the wrong when He and one of His children are separated; yet He devises ways so that the banished person may not remain estranged from Him. Never underestimate the significance of timing when it comes to mending. You may not get another chance.
Beth Moore
#43. Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
Marshall Berman
#44. Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#45. You can indeed become lost, in dreams. And you may not always find yourself when you wake up.
Neil Gaiman
#46. Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities.
Rodolfo Costa
#47. Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#48. God bless you young women and young men who struggle through the worrisome teenage years. Some of you may not yet have found yourselves, but you are not lost, for Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, our Savior and Redeemer.
Boyd K. Packer
#49. Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.
Janusz Korczak
#50. Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.
Rumi
#51. Whatever the path that brought you here
There is a reason why you came,
Though you may not realize it now.
Therefore,please open your ears.
Listen to the message that Sedona has for you. The old juniper standing tall in the golden sunset just might tell you the reason.
Ilchi Lee
#52. You don't need a team! Often, we do not do certain things because we feel that to take up something new, we need a team or at least one more person who thinks as we do. If you are smart enough you may not need any one else!
Abhishek Ratna
#53. Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may not read. These things always go together.
Philippa Gregory
#54. When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.
Don Meyer
#55. You're gonna miss this, you're gonna want this back. You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast. These are some good times, so take a good look around. You may not know it now, but you're gonna miss this.
Trace Adkins
#56. If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.
Elbert Hubbard
#57. Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.
Benjamin Zander
#58. You may not find the opportunity to succeed, but you can always find the opportunity to serve. Then serve to succeed.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Roses are red, violets are blue. You may not know it, but someone loves you.
Meg Cabot
#60. Sometimes you have to play in a position that you may not feel is your best.
Graeme Souness
#61. RVM Thoughts for Today
You may not be able to change People's Actions , but you can choose your own Reactions.
R.v.m.
#62. You may cry out tears for misplacing your money, but you got to cry out blood if you have misplaced your dreams. Sadly, you may not even know the great deal of influence you loss when you misplace your dreams, so how will you cry for such a loss?
Israelmore Ayivor
#63. Because you may not love the candy-man, but you do love the candy.
Stephen King
#64. Trust in the process you are now experiencing. Life is on your side. It is showing that to you now, though you may not be able to see it clearly at this time.
Neale Donald Walsch
#66. And years from now,
you may not remember exactly what you ate.
But you'll remember who you ate with.
Lisa Schroeder
#67. You may not be rich with money, Socrates was not, your life still has tremendous value.
Debasish Mridha
#68. You may not lead by ordering, but you may lead by showing possibilities and the beauty of success.
Debasish Mridha
#69. You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come from soy (representing 20 percent of your daily calories) and more than half of the sweeteners you consume come from corn (representing around 10 perecent of daily calories).
Michael Pollan
#70. Grass [marijuana] probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.
George Carlin
#71. 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.
Farshad Asl
#72. North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.
Frank Schaeffer
#73. You may not reach anywhere with a single step; but with it, you open the door leading to infinity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#74. I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in.
Shaquille O'Neal
#75. Check your passions that you may not be punished by them.
Epictetus
#76. I think if you can describe it, you may not fully be experiencing it because it is such a personal relationship.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#77. You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.
Barbara Corcoran
#78. Your presence on this earth are important, even though you may not believe it. Of course, such ideas could land you in a lot of trouble for breaking the Law of Jante, but don't be intimidated. Continue to live without fear, and you will triumph in the end.' The
Paulo Coelho
#79. All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.
Richard Eyre
#80. Fish for a man, he'll eat for a day, don't teach him to de-bone that fish, You may not have to worry about him tomorrow!
V. Pain
#81. You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
Earl Wilson
#82. Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Tom Krause
#83. The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!
Peter Garrett
#84. You may not believe it, but it is what I desire the most in the world. This place has afflicted me with a terrible wanderlust. I long for the fire, for the sights you have seen. Yet here I am, two hundred years after I arrived. Still a prisoner, though I masquerade as a king.
Samantha Shannon
#85. Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#86. Where are your clothes? And do not pretend you do not know. I can accept that you may not know if you killed a man, but every girl always knows where her clothes are.
M.R.C. Kasasian
#87. You may not be a work of art, but you are definitely a piece of work.
Amy Harmon
#88. Even if you are strange, you may not be able to deny that we all live in the same home that we call Earth. So let us love her.
Debasish Mridha
#89. 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.
Atul Gawande
#90. If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#91. There is nothing in the world so enticing as that which you have been told you may not have.
Marie Brennan
#92. You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.
Rodney Atkins
#93. The ultimate message of this book is terrifying: you may not know your own children, and, worse yet, your children may be unknowable to you. The stranger you fear may be your own son or daughter.
Sue Klebold
#94. Like a child, the earth's going to sleep,
or so the story goes.
But I'm not tired, it says.
And the mother says, You may not be tired but I'm tired
Louise Gluck
#95. You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
Leon Trotsky
#96. You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky ... to Igor Stravinsky!
Victor Borge
#97. I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.
Cliff Richard
#98. Nirvana occurs when you not only look forward to rapture, but also gaze back into the times of anguish and find in them the seeds of your joy. You may not have felt that happiness at the time, but in retrospect it is incontrovertible.
Andrew Solomon
#99. One of the fruits of longevity is establishing a reputation you may not deserve.
Carolyn Hart
#100. You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.
M. Night Shyamalan
