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“You cannot make men good by law.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“You cannot make mistakes in the Champions League.”
“You cannot make omelets without breaking some eggs.”
Source: 100 Digital Rules
“You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.”
“You cannot make progress with excuses.”
“You cannot make progress without making decisions.”
“You cannot make promises because you never know what your next project will be.”
“You cannot make someone love you.
You cannot make yourself love someone.
You cannot choose whom to love.
You cannot stop yourself from loving.
But,
You can learn to love yourself;
You can grow in acceptance;
You can choose whom you see, and you can gradually let go.”
“You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.”
“You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God.”
“You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“You cannot make the sun rise before it is ready to, no matter how fearsome you may be.”
Source: Mark of Faith
“You cannot make this kind of decision," he said. "Go off with someone you barely know. You're seventeen."
"And you're the guy who got drunk on eggnog last Christmas and danced to 'Turn The Beat Around' in Aunt Rachel's wig, so stop acting like you're in charge."
"We agreed not to mention that ever again," Jason whispered furiously.”
Source: Wonder Woman: Warbringer
“You cannot make this world respect you. You cannot make it dignify you. It will never bend to you. This world does not belong to you, Reina Mori, you belong to it, and perhaps when it is ready for a revolution it will look to you for leadership.”
Source: The Atlas Complex
“You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.”
“You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.”
“You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.”
“You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.”
“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
“You cannot manage a decision you haven't made.”
“You cannot manage risk, or for that matter, build a risk management capability without first understanding the “business value of risk management.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.”
“You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future.”
“You cannot master something whose doing is not the foundation of your lifestyle.”
“You cannot measure a handful of good as held against a mountain of evil, for a pair of hands such as this possesses all of the resources to summit the peak of any mountain such as that.”
“You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.”
Source: Pushing to the Front: Or Success Under Difficulties, a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty
“You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees.”
“You cannot measure opportunities by outcomes.”
“You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved them, all they hoped to be and could give back to the world.”
“You cannot measure your success by comparing it to the success of others.”
Source: Fear Is My Homeboy: How to Slay Doubt, Boss Up, and Succeed on Your Own Terms
“You cannot meet in the middle with the devil.”
“You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.”
“You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.”
“You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for the dead tyrants’ murders and you alone cannot stop living tyrants. As Martin Buber saw it, the world of ordinary days “affords” us that precise association with god that redeems both us and our speck of world. God entrusts and allots to everyone an area to redeem: this creased and feeble life, “the world in which you live, just as it is, and not otherwise.” “Insofar as he cultivates and enjoys them in holiness, he frees their souls…he who prays and sings in holiness, eats and speaks in holiness…through him the sparks which have fallen will be uplifted, and the worlds which have fallen will be delivered and renewed.”
Source: For the Time Being: Essays
“You cannot merely expect culture to be a natural occurrence; it has to be taught and made a part of your everyday routine.”
“You cannot miss what you have never had.”
“You cannot mistake this
You cannot reinvent this moment
You cannot call this love
It is so much more”
“You cannot mix sports with politics.”
“You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.”
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Christie's Collections
“You cannot mock God because whatever good thing you do, you're gonna reap for it.”
“You cannot motivate anyone but yourself. To enhance or cause action in another person, you must create an atmosphere around them wherein they will want to motivate themselves.”
“You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.”
“You cannot mourn the life
you haven't live yet,
only one that has already gone.
You will never know the meadows
you could grow, if you are fixated
on the ashes of a garden you never had.”
Source: Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light
“You cannot move a car with a flat battery. Without prayer, one becomes like that car. There is a need to be constantly recharged and prayer does exactly that – it offers a recharge to the spirit man.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“You cannot move forward in the real world
if you cannot see the real world.
You cannot find the beauty in the world
if all you see is its adornment.
Autumn comes.
Autumn falls.
Autumn leaves.
The world turns fire
and burns off all that is fading.”
“You cannot move forward in your life if you do not allow yourself to move.”
Source: Guided Transformation
“You cannot move freely in a full room; a full mind has the same problem! In order to expand your range of motion and feel free, you need to put a lot of things out of your mind!”
“You cannot move mountains with folded hands.”
“You cannot move on to a new phase in life if you bring your old baggage with you, let the bad go, and move onto the new.”