Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You don't have to be a genius to invest well”
“You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
“You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.”
Source: I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President
“You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.”
Source: End of Story
“You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.”
“You don't have to be a house to be haunted.”
“You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.”
“You don't have to be a pastor to let your passion be felt and your voice heard. You just need to be willing to be the first one willing to die.”
“You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style”
“You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.”
“You don't have to be a rocket science to know that if Joe Teti has a rifle, and a round to go with it. I'm going hunting.”
“You don't have to be a rocket scientist to prove that cutting incomes to the poorest families will have a negative impact on kids. That is less money for the basics like food, health and clothes.”
“You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.”
“You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.”
“You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.”
“You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.”
Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir
“You don't have to be afraid because we're all the same”
“You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.”
Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962
“You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different.”
“You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.”
“You don't have to be alone to feel alone.”
Source: Peak
“You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.”
“You don't have to be an elected official to be a public servant.”
“You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.”
“You don't have to be angry, you don't have to be too cool for school. You can just have a good time and dance like no one's watching. Just enjoy life.”
“You don't have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way”
“You don't have to be anybody... because I would know, being somebody doesn't make you anybody anyway.”
“You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it.”
“You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn how to write prose takes a lot of years of practice.”
“You don't have to be at rock bottom to take care of yourself.”
“You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different if a team is really together and they're all on that same page. They might not like each other, per se, but if you're on the same page and the chemistry is there, you can play great basketball. You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won.”
“You don't have to be big to be a big leaguer. Look at Phil Rizzuto. He's really small and he's been one of the greatest that ever was.”
“You don't have to be big to be great.”
“You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.”
“You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.”
“You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.”
“You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.”
“You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.”
Source: The Collection
“You don't have to be captain to have an opinion.”
“You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help”
“You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam conflict] is characterized by arrogance, ignorance and self-delusion at the highest levels of government.”
“You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.”
Source: Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
“You don't have to be dishonest to communicate the gospel.”
“You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.”
“You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.”
“You don't have to be educated to be a president.”
“You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.”
Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
“You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace.”
“You don't have to be famous to be great.”
“You don't have to be famous to live out your own red carpet moment.”