Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You cannot become great by working for salary.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.”
“You cannot become Happy, You can only Be Happy.”
Source: Feeling without limitation: awakening to the truth beyond fear, sorrow, and anger : a spiritual discourse
“You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.”
“You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that we have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is vital not only for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself - a point that seems to escape many people.”
“You cannot begin, until you begin.”
Source: A Chain of Flames
“You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.”
“You cannot believe anything that comes out of Florida!”
“You cannot believe everything you hear”
“You cannot believe how hard it is to try and raise money for a film. I did it for six years and it was such a failure.”
“You cannot believe in civilization till you become civilization.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.”
“You cannot believe missing persons and death toll numbers the government releases, especially when it involves well known tourist destinations.”
“You cannot believe the loneliness', he said at last, so softly that Orla was forced to move closer to him to hear. 'The mensch are so very, very lonely. The only means they have of communicating are physical. They must rely on words or a look or a gesture to describe what they feel, and their languages are so limited. Most of the time, they are unable to express what they truly mean, and so they live their lives and die without ever knowing the truth, about themselves or others.”
Source: Serpent Mage
“You cannot believe the mayhem!”
“You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.”
“You cannot blame anyone else for What you do. You cannot blame your past for who you are. You are responsible for you. You make your own choices.”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“You cannot blame everything on the enemy.”
Source: The new Atlantis and other novellas of science fiction
“You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth”
“You cannot bore people into buying your product - you can only interest them in buying it.”
Source: An autobiography
“You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!”
“You cannot borrow security. You must invest in yourself. It is through this investment that you develop resilience. Each failure creates an opportunity for “bouncing back,’ thus strengthening your soul’s elasticity.”
Source: Circuit Train Your Brain: Daily Habits That Develop Resilience
“You cannot break me.”
“You cannot break me. I believe in my self.”
“You cannot break me now,
I will not let you do it again...”
Source: Dear, I Hate You
“You cannot break me with a tale, brother.”
“You’re happy, aren’t you? You’re loved. You love others. I think people are convinced that if you asked the sun not to rise, it would stand down for you. But there’s only one story that people like better than a rise to fame—a fall from grace. And I can make it swift. And I can take all this away. You see, a story is not just a thing told to a child before sleep. A story is control.”
Source: A Crown of Wishes
“You cannot break records without breaking fear first.”
“You cannot break the human spirit.”
“You cannot breathe deeply and worry at the same time. Breathe. Let the worry go. Breathe. Allow the love and intuition in.”
“You cannot brighten another's path without lighting your own.”
“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.”
“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending”
“You cannot bring anything new into your life until you are grateful for what you have now.”
“You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.”
“You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.”
“You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.”
Source: The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life
“You cannot build a cultural identity without the images and sounds of your culture. Most countries in the third world - poor countries - they've lost their memories. Because everyday, films and cultural artifacts disappear. Film is also a memory - of the character and imagination of a culture.”
“You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“You cannot build a grass-roots campaign unless you are connecting with people.”
“You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. Abraham Lincoln said it...”
“You cannot build a strong team unless you teach your people discipline.”
“You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.”
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: 100 Influential Quotes of My Life
“You cannot build God’s reputation if you aren’t willing to risk yours.”
“You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.”
Source: Modern V. Ancient Civilization
“You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.”
Source: The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking
“You cannot build the castle of your dreams on someone else's rubble of nightmares.”
Source: the HeART of Public Speaking
“You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.”