Y Quotes
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“You can't think failure and live in victory.”
Source: Built Not Bought: Everything I'd Teach a Clone of Me (Without the Drama): Lessons on Mindset, Confidence, Discipline, and Becoming Who You Already Are
“You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well. And I mean that last "well" in both senses. You have to be good at reading, and read good things. People who just want information may find other ways to get it. But people who want to have ideas can't afford to.”
Source: Paul Graham: Essays - Volume 1, 1993-2005
“You can't think your way to happiness, you need to let happiness come to you.”
“You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.”
“You can't thrive if you keep hiding in the shadows. For this reason, you have got to turn on your light a little bit.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“You can't throw kindling on a fire and deny you kept it burning. And right now, cowardice is that kindling.”
Source: The Adventures of Stanley Delacourt
“You can’t throw shade on someone lit by the Holy Spirit — we glow in the dark, too”
“You can't tiptoe toward justice. You can't walk up to the door all polite and knock once or twice, hoping someone's home. Justice is a door that, when closed, must be kicked in.”
Source: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
“You can't train people loyalty. A person with loyalty is a great asset than a smart but disloyal one...”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“You can't transform a society for the better with violence, Ashala. Only with ideas.”
Source: The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf
“You can't truly call yourself an artist if you have an aversion to colors.”
“You can't truly hate someone until you've cared about them. Until you've loved them.”
Source: Like Mandarin
“You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“You can't truly hear
and remain untouched.
You can't truly think
and remain unaltered.”
“You can’t truly move forward if you don’t know where you’re going (or if you don’t know why you’re going in that direction). If that’s the case, you’re not really moving forward—you’re just moving. It’s like pushing papers or doing busy work; your hands are busy but you’re not getting much accomplished.”
Source: Self Care at Work: How to Reduce Stress, Boost Productivity, and Do More of What Matters
“You can't trust anyone - I learned that the hard way.”
Source: Tiny Pretty Things
“You can't trust anything on the Internet."
"Can, too," I said, completed offended.
"So, if I posted a comment saying I was an Arabian prince from Milwaukee?"
"Yeah, but you're a big fat liar. You don't count. I mean, look at your dad. Pathological liar numeral uno. Lying is in your genes."
He leaned forward. There's only one thing in my jeans right now.”
Source: Sixth Grave on the Edge
“You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!”
Source: The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
“You can't try to solve every problem at once. It's better to tackle the problem that's right in front of you, right?”
Source: ラストゲーム 8
“You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you’ve created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can’t see it anymore.”
Source: The Sweet Gum Tree
“You can't turn your sadness into something meaningful when you haven't yet learned to accept it as temporary. It too will pass.”
Source: Holding The Moon With Lavender Hands
“You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.”
“You can't understand beauty without peace of mind and you can't get close to the truth without fear.”
Source: The Iraqi Christ
“You can’t understand us. We don’t even understand ourselves.”
Source: Enshadowed
“You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake.”
Source: My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
“You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)”
Source: My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
“You can’t unrub the lamp and cram the genie back inside.”
Source: Dinosaurs, Doubts & Albert Einswine
“You can't up-up-and-away in creativity and innovation without spending down-on-the-ground time in the muck and the mire.”
Source: The Bad Habits of Jesus: Showing Us the Way to Live Right in a World Gone Wrong
“You can't use a new word to replace an old one without it holding the exact same correlation, segregation and complacency that the original term was associated with. Instead of the 1930s mindset of 'People with Asperger's are worthy of survival, but those who have autism are not,' we now see a twenty-first century version of that: 'People who are high-functioning are worthy of survival, but those who are low functioning...' It's just a more modernised, accepted vocabulary. Instead of 'worthy of survival', our new language is being 'worthy' in capitalism and 'worthy' of support.”
Source: Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
“You can't use blackmail on someone who doesn't know anything about the hold you have on them.”
Source: Dead to the World
“You can’t wait around for someone to realize the good standing right in front of them.”
“You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.”
“You can’t wake up one day and suddenly become a leader. You first discover that specific thing God created you for, develop it into something specific that the world will need, and then you have already leading started leading.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“You can’t walk a road that you never chose to pave.”
“You can't walk away without also walking towards.”
Source: Tess of the Road
“You can't walk on the yellow brick road without having your red shoes on. The color represents what I've been forgiven of and what I'm washed in but keeps my robe white as snow.
See it started in '13 and I would call it a well-knitted finding of marketing and money handling, pass-porting through the port as I ass through the deceit that creates defeat, a price tag on each heartbeat. But I desire to be different for my desiring in life is in contrast to the cattle of life.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“You can't walk through hell unchanged”
“You can't walk through life shaking yourself to pieces over how other people think you should be. They'll always try to fit you in some box- angel, devil. Hero, villain. Fuckup, saint. But we ain't meant for boxes, not 'til we're dead in the ground. You're the only person who knows who you are. So stop trying to fit yourself into one of their boxes and just let yourself be you.”
Source: Stranger Things: Flight of Icarus
“You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back.”
“You can’t wear that outfit around Fiona.”
“I earned the right to wear this uniform.”
“And you should be commended for that. But my donation to the KCPD Widows & Orphans Fund gives me the right to decide how you dress around my daughter. I don’t want her frightened or put off by the military-looking attire. She likes jewel-tone colors. Do you have anything like that you could wear? Jeans or slacks are acceptable over the holidays.”
“Jewel-tone…?” Her unadorned cheeks were blushing again. Temper, he suspected, not embarrassment.
“Do you want me to paint my gun fuchsia pink? - (Quinn & Miranda)”
Source: Nanny 911
“You can't win a fight with a fight.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You can't win a war. Someone else just loses.”
Source: To Kill a Kingdom
“You can’t win all wars with violence.
Some require sacrifice.”
Source: Mortal Tether
“You can’t win the game if you never learn the rules. And the people who profit most from your confusion are counting on that.”
Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
“You can’t win. The game is fixed. So when they say, “Why do you burn down the community? Why do you burn down your own neighborhood?” It’s not ours. We don’t own anything. We don’t own anything. [...] There’s a social contract that we all have, that if you steal, or if I steal, then the person who is the authority comes in and they fix the situation. But the person who fixes the situation is killing us. So the social contract is broken. And if the social contract is broken, why the f*** do I give a shit about burning the f***ing Football Hall of Fame, about burning a f***ing Target?”
“You can’t win without being patient. You know why? Success comes when you value time by using it profitably. It comes over time; delay is not denial!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“You can’t work in isolation ... When you work on a project, if it’s going to be successful, you need to be a team player, accept suggestions from others, recognise there are others with experience and skills who can help.”
Source: The Engraver's Secret
“You can't work in the library without going into the Old Levels," said Mirelle somberly. "At least some of the time. I wouldn't be keen on going to some parts of the Library, myself."
Lirael listened, wondering what they were talking about. The Great Library of the Clayr was enormous, but she had never heard of the Old Levels.
She knew the general layout well. The Library was shaped like a nautilus shell, a continuous tunnel that wound down into the mountain in an ever-tightening spiral. This main spiral was an enormously long, twisting ramp that took you from the high reaches of the mountain down past the level of the valley floor, several thousand feet below.
Off the main spiral, there were countless other corridors, rooms, halls, and strange chambers. Many were full of the Clayr's written records, mainly documenting the prophesies and visions of many generations of seers. But they also contained books and papers from all over the Kingdom. Books of magic and mystery, knowledge both ancient and new. Scrolls, maps, spells, recipes, inventories, stories, true tales, and Charter knew what else.
In addition to all these written works, the Great Library also housed other things. There were old armories within it, containing weapons and armor that had not been used for centuries but still stayed bright and new. There were rooms full of odd paraphernalia that no one now knew how to use. There were chambers where dressmakers' dummies stood fully clothed, displaying the fashions of bygone Clayr or the wildly different costumes of the barbaric North. There were greenhouses tended by sendings, with Charter marks for light as bright as the sun. There were rooms of total darkness, swallowing up the light and anyone foolish enough to enter unprepared.
Lirael had seen some of the Library, on carefully escorted excursions with the rest of her year gathering. She had always hankered to enter the doors they passed, to step across the red rope barriers that marked corridors or tunnels where only authorized librarians might pass.”
Source: Lirael
“You can’t work with people you hate and succeed. At least, you won’t get the optimum of what you would have obtained when you work with people you love.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“You can't worry about the future so much that you miss out on the present.”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Live Forever