Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeking it.”
“You cannot avoid the storms of life, but you can always prepare for them through prayer.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.”
“You cannot barter manhood for peace.”
“You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.”
“You cannot baselessly say, "It is destined." Nor can you baselessly say, "It is not destined." That is a liability, it would be a fault. It [the outcome] is in between 'it is destined-it is not destined'. If the pocket gets picked even after taking all the precautions, to understand that as 'vyavasthit' is exact.”
Source: Generation Gap
“You cannot be
spiritually free and financially bound.”
“You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart”
“You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic”
Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God
“You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.”
“You cannot be a fully functioning 21st-century citizen in America unless you have access to high-speed broadband. It's as simple as that.”
“You cannot be a great bard unless you’ve had at least one great experience, and you cannot sing of valor, villainy, heroism, loss, love, or betrayal unless you’ve experienced them firsthand.”
Source: Three Days and Two Knights
“You cannot be a great friend if you don't know how to give.”
Source: The Law Of Reciprocity
“You cannot be a hater or racist and simultaneously seek or preach about justice, equal rights, human rights violations, morals, integrity, ethics, fairness, and peace. This is a conflict of interest and makes you a hypocrite.”
“You cannot be a hero without being a coward.”
“You cannot be a light to others or yourself, if you have dark intentions in your heart.”
“You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.”
“You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“You cannot be a modern association without a contemporary board.”
Source: The Future of Associations
“You cannot be a mother until you are a daughter,
an infant until you are a toddler,
a youth until you are a youngster,
a grownup until you are a teenager,
an elder until you are a minor,
an ancestor until you are a progenitor,
a father until you are a creator,
and an heir until you are a successor.
Nor can you be a master until you are a scholar,
a guru until you are a learner,
a leader until you are a follower,
a warrior until you are a fighter,
a general until you are a soldier,
a pope until you are a worshiper,
a doctor until you are a healer,
and an apostle until you are a believer.”
“You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms of role of government and the rest is as ancient as - as old as America.”
“You cannot be a party which takes money from Wall Street, which is not strong on the pharmaceutical industry, which is ripping us off every day, which is not strong on health care in taking on the insurance companies, which has not shown a desire to stand up and fight the economic establishment, and then tell working families that you are on their side. People see through that.”
“You cannot be a positive influence to the “sinners at the table" if you refuse to dine with them.”
Source: Look into the stillness
“You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.”
Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
“You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.”
“You cannot be a secret and be profitable.”
“You cannot be a solid leader without sacrificing self-interest and self-obsession,”
Source: Wealth of Words
“You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.”
“You cannot be accountable with the products of someone else's mind; no man is known for a skillful hunting by the number of bush meats gathered by another man!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“You cannot be afraid to present yourself. And sometimes that takes practice. If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable, you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.”
“You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.”
“You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.”
Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition
“You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.”
“You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.”
“You cannot be an egomaniac on the horse. If you lose your temper and start beating him, either you will destroy him, or he will destroy you. As soon as you start riding horses seriously, you're being disciplined on a daily basis about how ignorant you are and what there is left for you to learn.”
“You cannot be an entrepreneur, unless you are a good provider. As a 9 to 5 person, your family is your responsibility, as an entrepreneur the families of your employees are your responsibility, as well as the welfare of your customers or clients.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“You cannot be an entrepreneur, unless you are a good provider. As a 9 to 5 person, your family is your responsibility, as an entrepreneur the families of your employees are your responsibility, as well as the welfare of your customers or clients. Today who abandons their family for their entrepreneurial dream, tomorrow will abandon their employees when that dream goes bankrupt.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.”
“You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.”
Source: The Principle of Nationalities
“You cannot be anything that you point to.”
“You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.”
“You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.”
Source: Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot
“You cannot be as E-ffective when you are IN-fected.”
“You cannot be aware of yourself, for you are awareness itself. How can a witness witness itself? That is like trying to see your own eyes without a reflection, or cut a knife with the tip of its own blade—it is impossible. The subject can only observe the object; it cannot make an object out of itself. But by the very act of observing, you indirectly know yourself as the observer, as the subject. No witnessing of the witness is needed to prove its existence.”
Source: The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
“You cannot be beautiful and hate.”
“You cannot be betrayed by your enemies, only your friends.”
Source: Of Gods and Elves
“You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”
“You cannot be born and you cannot die because you don't even exist ... in the sense that you think of existence.”
“You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.”
“You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate”
Source: A chime of words: the letters of Logan Pearsall Smith