Top 494 Cannot Quotes

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

If you don’t have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

The Public – a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it’s like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

When you are on the field as a captain, the mind is always working. You cannot relax at any point of time. You are always focussing on what is going to be the next move, what if it doesn’t work, what if the situation changes and you have to change your plan.

My definition of product-market fit is you are drowning in demand – your product is being used by so many customers that you cannot handle all the new people knocking at your door!

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

You cannot win an election without a fight.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the ‘freedom of the press’ goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.

The world is getting smaller and smaller every day. We cannot find ourselves dependent on somebody who is untrustworthy.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

You’ve got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you’ve got to blossom where you’re planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.