Y Quotes
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“You cannot act in love and act in fear at the same time. You must choose between them.”
“You cannot act in the old way, as you got used to, as you have been programmed in your childhood, you will have to change yourself or otherwise you will not survive”
“You cannot act without the presence of the will-power, every act leads to a desire and desire to achieving pleasure. Therefore, happiness seems to be the final destination of mankind.”
“You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest.”
“You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to
create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and
work.”
“You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.”
“You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal.”
“You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough”
“You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.”
“You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.”
Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.”
“You cannot afford to let negative opinions stop you from sitting at the table of success. Know your worth, be persistent and be resilient.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“You cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of your life; at some point, you have to unleash the potential and make your move(ment).”
“You cannot afford to lose every friendship you make; some friendships are seriously needed to be maintained into your old age.”
“You cannot afford to play small, you have big dreams to be achieved, flaws and all.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“You cannot afford to rely on history, you have to make it.”
“You cannot aim and hit a target that you can’t see.”
Source: Paradigm Shift: Change Your Mindset and Live the Life of Your Dreams
“You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.”
“You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad.”
“You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.”
“You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.”
“You cannot always find someone to make you feel special; if you did, make her a heaven so she could stay.”
“You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.”
“You cannot always run at your best.”
“You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.”
“You cannot always wait for the perfect time. Sometimes you must dare to jump.”
“You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.”
“You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.”
“You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.”
“You cannot antagonize and be a positive influence, and you will antagonize when you discipline through emotion.”
“You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.”
“You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.”
“You cannot appreciate God without appreciating people”
“You cannot appreciate the beauty of the sky at night without these five shining lights.”
“You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.”
“You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.”
Source: Round the bend
“You cannot argue with gravity, negotiate with fire, or rewrite the laws of nature. Reality stands, unmoved by human will.”
“You cannot arrive at your life’s purpose by starting with a focus on yourself. You must begin with God, your Creator. You exist only because God wills that you exist. You were made by God and for God – and until you understand that, life will never make sense. It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“You cannot ask a person who is created to break down fences to be the same who builds them. The one who breaks fences believes in freedom, no boundaries and universal browsing. Those who build them believe in setting rules for others and make sure other are controlled by his/her concepts”
“You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot have one stereotyped code of morality for every country. One system may work very well in one country and very badly in another. You cannot grow a tropical flower in a cold climate.”
“You cannot, at the very same time, be grateful and unhappy, or ungrateful and happy.”
“You cannot attain # mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do”
“You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors / how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.”
Source: They Call Me Coach
“You cannot attain to charity except through humility.”
“You cannot attain true financial freedom if it is all about showing it off or proving people wrong. Find your purpose for greatness first before attracting wealth.”
“You cannot attempt to suggest much less try to explain this to normal people inside the box and is why I always throw in the monkey wrench option of doing it the social way”
“You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it.”
Source: Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World
“You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.”
Source: The Man Who Folded Himself