Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.
I cannot judge a country. I fall in love with the people and the place each time I visit a new place.
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements… the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
If you don’t lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
In Einstein’s equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women – but he can think of them as he ought – as sisters, not as sparring partners.
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.
The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others.
Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot – travel all the same!
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It’s not fair to them.
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.
We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
