In this post, you will find great Cannot Quotes from famous people, such as T. S. Eliot, Mark Twain, William Barclay, Charlotte Bronte, Gary Zukav. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.
Anger cannot be dishonest.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.
The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
If there is no word that means you don’t have the concept. In North Korea they eliminate the words: depression, stress, dictatorship, human rights. You cannot think of those. That’s why all the brainwashing was possible.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.
If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together.
Love cannot save you from your own fate.
You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.
What can be shown, cannot be said.
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
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.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
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.
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.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
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.
All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
As the world becomes a more digital place, we cannot forget about the human connection.
You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn’t personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren’t close to the Spirit.
According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
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.
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.
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
One of the criticisms I’ve faced over the years is that I’m not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I’m empathetic, it means I’m weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate and strong.
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us – of becoming happy – is not attainable: yet we may not – nay, cannot – give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
We cannot be mere consumers of good governance, we must be participants; we must be co-creators.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
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.
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
The blockchain cannot be described just as a revolution. It is a tsunami-like phenomenon, slowly advancing and gradually enveloping everything along its way by the force of its progression.
Yes, we have ruined the Earth and have done an exceptionally good job of it. Yes, we should look at sustainable development. But we cannot afford to do things sequentially, but parallelly and make sure that we do not repeat our mistakes.
You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else’s point of view.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That’s fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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!
One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
There would be more sense in insisting on man’s limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman’s because she can be.
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
We cannot prevent hurricanes or earthquakes, floods or volcanic eruptions. But we can ensure that both people and communities are better prepared and more resilient.
I cannot live without books.
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man’s God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
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.
Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
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.
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.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.
There is a dark side in all of us. And for us ‘bad’ people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.
Politeness and caring for each other cannot be a thing of the past.
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
The fighter is born. He cannot be made.
Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won‘t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.
Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain‘s success.
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.
My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
I really do not know. I really do not know how to solve the problem of the Philippines. I cannot be the savior of this republic.
The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
Truth cannot be defeated.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
I’m just going to write because I cannot help it.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.
You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
The body says what words cannot.
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say.
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
I cannot believe how fine I am with being bald.
The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit ‘the wild goose.’ And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.
Well, I don’t know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Peace is a never ending process… It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
You cannot travel within and stand still without.
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.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don’t know what to say about what I paint, really.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
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.
