Y Quotes
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“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”
Source: Revolt in 2100
“You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.”
“You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.”
Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance
“You can swim (uncomfortably) in water at a temperature slightly above freezing; a tiny drop in temperature-or a miracle-allows you to walk on water.”
“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.”
“You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.”
“You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub.”
“You can’t accept correction when you are not humble to listen.”
Source: Become a Better You
“You can't achieve anything deeply satisfying without a drawn-out process leading up to it- and yet process demands a goal. You can't love one without at least appreciating the other.”
Source: The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
“You can't achieve excellence in life if you fear opinion.”
“You can't achieve major goals with minimal work.”
“You can't achieve success by avoiding failure.”
“You can't achieve success by avoiding struggle”
Source: Alive Sentence
“You can't achieve the dream if you're pleasing the team”
“You can't achieve your dream alone. You need people who believe in it, because one tree alone can’t make a forest”
“You can't act when you are always in the comfort-zone. It's beautiful to be scared once for awhile.”
“you can't actually dim someone else's brightness. it's part of them. it's part of who they are. and no matter what you do, it's not in your power to take it. even if you try to create tarnish around them, nothing you do can ever make them less bright or beautiful or creative or magnetic or less of any other thing that they hold within them. trying to tear others down will only ever make you feel less beautiful than you are. no amount of trying to put out someone else's light is ever going to heal the darkness you feel. and the truth is, that fight you feel against their glow is just your soul aching for you to fight for your own. so step back and take your focus off of them. take a breath in. stop trying to put out someone else's fire… start looking inside and light up your own.”
“You can’t add value to the lives of anyone else until you’ve added enough value to your own.”
“You can't admit to someone else what you're too damn afraid to admit to yourself.”
Source: The Wolf Road
“You can't adopt people like kittens! Aiden growled.
'I wouldn't know; someone wouldn't let me get a kitten', Meryn retorted.
'Fine, you can have a kitten, no people'
'Too late”
Source: My Guardian
“You can’t afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace.”
Source: Old Man's War
“You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“You can't all be the greatest knight in England."
"Why not?" Gawain smiled suddenly. "It makes for better stories that way.”
Source: The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
“You can't always be prepared for life, you will have defenceless moments! But let me give you some good news, life can't always be prepared for your moves either, it will have defenceless moments too!”
“You can't always be right, but you can be wrong a lot less”
Source: Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
“You can't always choose the people you work with, but you can choose to learn how to deal with them. They are all different." - Charles”
Source: Kindred Hearts
“You can't always choose which. Sometimes you have to BE which.”
“You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it.”
“You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.”
“You can’t always get it right, if you fail, and it will happen, accept it, jump back on and try again”
“You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometime you find
You get what you need”
Source: The Rolling Stones 50
“You can't always go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
Source: The Maze Runner
“You can't always have the best results in life but you have the power to turn a bad news into a good news. It all depends on how you react to life's challenges.”
“You can’t always have the full picture to everything in life, you'll only learn as you make more mistakes.”
“You can't always keep your loved ones with you. You can't always settle your life in one place. The world was made to change. But as long as you cherish the memories and make new ones along on the way, no matter where you are, you'll always be at home.”
Source: This Is Where It Ends
“You can’t always live life in fear of losing what you possess. It would make gaining anything quite impossible.”
Source: The Space Between the Seasons
“You can't always rely on taking the pain. You need to learn to avoid it.”
Source: Fear University
“You can’t always say you don’t care about others' opinions. A single lie is definitely a lie, but a group of lies sounds like truth.”
– Velvebloo Flowere, Chapter 10: Conflict with the Council”
Source: EA-R-TH: Age of NeOlwd
“You can't and should not suppress your emotions. Instead sit in silence and witness your emotions. Pick them up, hold them up, understand them, realize the futility of those that bring you pain and discard them. This is how you peel away wasteful emotions. It is a process.”
“You can’t argue a point for one side and ignore it for the one you’re favorable toward”
“You can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention. - Brom”
Source: Eragon
“You can’t argue with religious people; you can’t change their mind even if you prove them wrong.”
“You can’t ask authentically and gracefully without truly being able to accept “No” for an answer. Because if you’re not truly willing to accept “No” for an answer, you’re not really asking, you’re demanding — you’re begging. At least, that’s how I’ve come to understand asking.”
“You can’t ask other people to decide how you will measure progress in your life. Because no one gets to define what matters to you. That’s your job and yours alone.”
“You can't
assume i'm
in bad shape
just because
i've run out of
the energy to
impress
you.”
“You can't assume that because you have plenty to eat that everyone does.”
Source: The Demon King
“You can’t atone for taking one life by saving another. What good does that do the dead?”
“The dead,” she said. “And we have plenty of dead between us, but the way we act, you’d think they were corpses hanging on to our ankles, rather than souls freed to the elements.”
Source: Dreams of Gods & Monsters
“You can’t attach yourself
To anything at all
Because evil will find you
And make sure you fall”
Source: Be Careful What You Wish For
“You can't attack the giants in your life, if you are not aiming to strike and hit the target. You can't run a race in vain, if you have no plans to win or finish it. Start, strive and aim high...never give up. Your best is yet to come!”
“You can’t automate trust. You have to earn it. Slowly. Honestly. With your hands visible.”