Moxie Quotes

I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect. ~ John Hodgman

Poor Williams was left holding the civic bag; he had taken a gutsy stand, his image was all moxie . . . and on Monday night, when the Angels were finally gone, he had earned the leisure that enabled him to go out to the lakefront and gaze off in a proud wistful way, like Gatsby, at the green neon lights of the tavern across the water, where the others were counting their money. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

Fate or imprinting, or whatever the hell my people want to call it – none of that can make me love you."
"I love you, Layla. I love your stubborn streak, the way you love Rosie, Raife, and Tati. I admire you desire for independence, and Lord knows, I love your moxie."
"Fate didn't make me love you… you did. ~ Sara Humphreys

The promise to save or create a 'perfect' humanity is almost always only and excuse for the urge to rule it. ~ Moxie Will

If something even remotely sexist comes out of you mouth again,' Moxie says, her eyes glinting, 'I will take a pound of flesh per word. ~ C.G. Drews

Fig leaned in close, his chest pressed to her back, his palm flat on her belly. "Time to muster up some moxie, Roxie," he whispered. "Every woman in this bar is wishing she had a body as gorgeous as yours, and every man is wishing he had your long, beautiful legs clamped around his butt."
Roxie relaxed. Smiled even. "Does that include you?" [...]
"Nah." [...] "My wish involves them wrapped around my head. ~ Wendy S. Marcus

...their hearts had still not been hardened with the inevitable cynicism that familiarity and experience breed. ~ Moxie Mezcal

I have learned that the universe does not often bend itself to my will. It does, however, always rearrange itself in my favor. ~ Moxie Malone

Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it. ~ Donna Lynn Hope

'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice. ~ Penn Jillette

I realized a long time ago not to worry about whodunnit; the more answers you find, the more questions they'll keep raising. ~ Moxie Mezcal

Innovation requires having at least three things: a great idea, the engineering talent to execute it, and the business savvy (plus deal-making moxie) to turn it into a successful product. ~ Walter Isaacson

We deny more than we confess. We hide more than we reveal. We assume because it makes us feel exposed if we have to ask. It's easier to say "I feel nothing" than to admit "I feel something." It takes no courage to say, "I hate you" but it takes a great deal of moxie to declare its opposite. Masks are elaborate and everyone has one. It takes a while to get to know people. This doesn't make them special, it makes them like everyone else. Sometimes our hearts scream yes while our heads say run; and only one can be obeyed. ~ Donna Lynn Hope

She'd kicked Klein's ass and still had enough moxie to tag him, and enough physical strength to get herself out of a window ten feet up on the wall.
He really should marry her. ~ Tara Janzen

So, dearest Madden, on a scale of one to ten ... am I fired?"
"What, for completely disobeying orders and bringing public enemy number one back to the center of the liberal universe so we would have to actually pardon him?"
"Something like that."
"You know, this may surprise you, but the president of the United States, your commander in chief, wanted me to express her gratitude. She said she admires your moxie."
"Wow. The president of the United States admires my moxie. Are you jealous?"
"Maybe. It's possible. No one has ever said anything about my moxie."
I slurp through my smirk. ~ Andrea Portes

If you don't make peace with your own mortality, you'll never know what it's like to truly be alive. ~ Moxie Mezcal

This is what it means to be a feminist. Not a humanist or an equalist or whatever. But a feminist. It's not a bad word. After today it might be my favorite word. Because really all it is is girls supporting each other and wanting to be treated like human beings in a world that's always finding ways to tell them they're not. ~ Jennifer Mathieu

We are doing it, me and you. We are doing it with heart. And with art. And with soul and blind faith and ancient knowing. Because we have to. Because there are people who need us to. Because WE need us to most of all.
No matter how discouraged you've been. No matter how the destructive old patterns have been returning, knocking loudly at your door. No matter the moments of utter freeze or massive resistance or sheer exhaustion. Go out today and make something. Something brave and defiant and determined and true. And then muster up your last bit of moxie and hold out your arms and offer it to the world.

Say "I made this. For me and for you".

Say " This is what keeps me from the rabbit hole".

Say "This is how I go on".

Say "I see you, too and I know how hard it is and I want you to have this to make it a little bit better"

I promise. It changes things.
For all of us. ~ Jeanette LeBlanc

My dancing came about as a way to be cool, actually. I knew early on that I was not a street kid. I didn't have the moxie, what it took to run the streets with the dudes that I grew up wanting to emulate. But I had a huge need to be accepted, so I found that I could be the party king. I did drugs really well, and I partied really well. ~ Michael K. Williams

Unfortunately, I somehow equated rebelling with turning into a giant asshole. ~ Moxie Mezcal

Sam looks down at his fingers wrapped around Avery's phone. "I'll catch him if he falls."
"Who catches you?" Moxie says.
Sam stitches on a pretend smile. "It doesn't matter. ~ C.G. Drews

I am Rot, James Moxie. I am the moment after you've decided to leave the one you love. ~ Josh Malerman

I didn't want to tell him that I was so wet that Noah would have had to build an ark to avoid the flood in my pants - Moxie ~ Z.B. Heller

Pay attention," Gareth said to Moxie. "If it comes down to a choice of gettin' captured or killed by Saxons or brigands, dead is less bad, ~ Hank Quense

While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it. ~ Robert Genn

Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids. ~ Nancy Gibbs

They always try to trick you, deliberately throwing extraneous plot lines just to confuse and misguide you, withholding important information until the last chapter, using vague and misleading descriptions so you don't notice something that should be plain as day. ~ Moxie Mezcal

He's not exactly a stranger anymore. He showed Jack how to do a backflip. Someone tipped sand down his shirt. He gave Moxie a leg up over the chain fence on the way home. He's eaten their potato salad and worn their clothes.
The trouble is he stole it all, every moment. And that's the part people don't overlook. They feel betrayed. Betrayed people have the hardest fists. ~ C.G. Drews

(Godzillabytes: Nelson had an irrational dislike of 'petabytes', the recognized term for a particular, and particularly large, wodge of data. Anything that sounded like a kitten's gentle nip just didn't have the moxie to do the job asked of it. 'Godzillabytes', on the other hand, shouted to the world that it was dealing with something very, very big . . . and possibly dangerous.) Nelson ~ Terry Pratchett

If we lose our significance (character) we fall in ruin. The exploiters take over and sell freedom from fear, from guilt, from want. They excuse all corrupt actions. Collective status degenerates the human spirit. ~ Moxie Will

I take a deep breath. How can I make him get it? He doesn't understand that Moxie isn't - wasn't - just a fun thing I did to be cool or different like his old hipster friends in Austin. I sincerely wanted to change East Rockport High School. Maybe I was naïve to think I could, but deep down I believed it might happen. ~ Jennifer Mathieu

If we are not willing to destroy the beauty we have created, we become slaves to it. ~ Moxie Mezcal

If you don't have the courage to confront, you don't have the right to complain.
Don't wait until anger gives you the courage! ~ Debra Fox