Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.”
“You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.”
Source: The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work
“You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.”
“You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.”
“You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sin, you know, and cry tears doing it that are genuine as any.”
Source: Peace Like a River
“You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.”
Source: Peace Like a River
“You can empathize without sympathizing.”
Source: The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes
“You can empower young children to conquer their fears by allowing them to tackle the “unspoken” fears.”
“You can empower yourself through education.”
“You can emulate people who are great, but do not imitate anyone on any given day. You were also created in a special way. You have what it takes to illuminate and be great.”
Source: Dear Daughter: Short and Sweet Messages for a Queen
“You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point. When you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth.”
“You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.”
“You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.”
“You can endure almost anything if you have someone at your side who cares.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“You can endure change by pondering His permanence.”
Source: Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose
“You can endure every hardship with hope.”
“You can energize the human mind and body with light.”
“You can engage in lie, confuse and deny, and I can engage in research, discovery and publish.”
“You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.”
“You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to.”
“You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside, but you cannot need for it to come from outside.”
“You can enjoy freedom only if you can exercise restraint. For example, you're free to enjoy sweets. But if you don't restrain yourself, you will soon be diabetic and won't be free to eat sweets.”
“You can enjoy my pain for the time I am under your will. But it won't last. I will be free.”
“You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.”
“You can enjoy the beauties of this world, as long as you remember this world doesn't exist.”
“You can enjoy the ideas of salvation, as long as you realize that there's no one to be saved.”
“You can enjoy the present moment, and you can be aligned with the doing. A different state of consciousness, then, is the foundation for what you do. Presence flows into what you do. Even though what you do may be the same, there is a fundamental difference: The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.”
“You can enjoy the rich, deep color and smooth feel of ebony chopsticks...
... or the mellow beauty and soft touch of lacquer chopsticks, which can be almost like works of art in themselves. And I think you can get in touch with nature by holding those natural cedar chopsticks.”
Source: Japanese Cuisine
“You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.”
Source: The Art of War
“You can ensure the success of your attacks if you only attack places that are undefended. You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked. Therefore, that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.”
“You can enter the kingdom of the Supreme when you realize that you are part of the Omnipresence.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.”
“You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.”
“You can erase me from earth if you so desire,
But you can't stop my ideas from spreading like wildfire.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“You can escape a town, but you cannot escape blood.”
Source: The Vanishing Half
“You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you.”
Source: Wild Carp: Fennel's Journal No. 4
“You can escape into a character.”
“You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.”
“You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.”
“You can even be slow or have a disability, its better to fail and mess up, in the beginning, to get to the success that you have been avoiding your lifetime”
“You can even change the world on an empty stomach, but you cannot change your life on an empty mind.”
“You can even get used to having a hole in your life where someone used to live. A hole where you thought they'd live for always, except that one day they just step sideways, without looking back or saying good-bye, and vanish forever.”
“You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly ... you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn't conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive.”
“You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures' authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.”
Source: Taking God At His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me
“You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.”
“You can exercise vigorously and eat junk and get by. But you can't eat perfectly and not exercise. Look at many athletes today; they are human garbage cans. They eat anything, but they exercise so hard they burn it up. But why not exercise and put the right fuel in too?”
“You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.”
“You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost.”
“You can expand your awareness in many ways, and as you do, your brain will evolve. It will grow physically by developing new neural pathways, synaptic connections, and even new brain cells. Perhaps more importantly, it will evolve to mirror the expansion of your mind into new, creative areas.”
“You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.”