Top 100 If You Can Quotes
#1. I say, if you can't laugh you might as well laugh anyway.
Stephen King
#2. If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.
Brian Tracy
#3. If you know what matters to you, it's easier to commit to change. If you can't identify what matters to you, you won't know when it's being threatened. And in my experience, people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened.
Marshall Goldsmith
#4. Everywhere you walk, every place you go is full of art, explicit or hidden! If you can see them, you will be the richest art collector and your memory will be the richest art gallery!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
#7. This is a dynamic particular to encounters with male drivers, who seem to grow all the more indignant the more completely they are in the wrong. I think the emotional reasoning, if you can call it that, is transitive: You make me feel bad; feeling mad makes me mad; ergo, you make me mad.
Lionel Shriver
#9. It's just easier to make fun and cut down. It's kind of a way of life in America. If you can make people want to hear what you're going to say, it can be cruel and funny.
David Spade
#10. The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
Anatole France
#11. If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.
Ed Seykota
#12. I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.
Tori Amos
#13. You know, Molly, if you can hold in your mind what you want long enough, you shall have it.
Kent Allan Rees
#14. If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.
Tracy Morgan
#15. If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.
Bette Midler
#16. Bone grease with dried meat and berries to make pemmican, the energy bars of a thousand years ago, and with a pouch of pemmican, the Native Americans were good to travel far and wide. (If you can't pack portable food, you spend most of your time hunting and foraging).
Marilyn Johnson
#17. If you can just immerse yourself in your life, it doesn't matter what you do everyday. Just do it intensely. Be in it, so that when you go to sleep you're exhausted every night and you say, 'Whoa, I just couldn't have done any more with that day.'
Diana Nyad
#18. It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.
Colum McCann
#19. You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.
David Eddings
#20. It's 1450 out of 1500 ETF funds that I just wouldn't touch because they're not diversified enough. Or they have some huge speculative twist to them that if you can guess the markets right you will do very well for a day or two but who can do that? Nobody.
John C. Bogle
#21. If you can only believe! If you will only believe! Then nothing, nothing, will be impossible for you! That is the truth and the Gospel, and it is wonderful. It's the good news.
Norman Vincent Peale
#22. There are certain treasures that kill you if you can't share them with others.
Michael Ende
#23. There is time, and then there is timelessness. And if you're lucky, and if you can be still enough, observant enough, you may be able to know and speak about that intersection of time and timelessness, or time and eternity.
Wendell Berry
#24. Crooked Warden," said Locke, "men are stupid. Protect us from ourselves. If you can't, let it be quick and painless.
Scott Lynch
#25. If you can't lick'em, join'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight , to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#26. I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.
Alison Goldfrapp
#27. My dear, he talked of peering into catamites' anuses, if you can conceive of anything more wonderful.
Damon Galgut
#28. Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.
Ruth Bernhard
#29. I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
Billie Holiday
#30. There's a fashion for a macho style of filmmaking. How long can your longest take be? And shooting things in one shot. For me, if you can sort of disappear and make people feel that they are there, that involves massive amounts of work.
Lenny Abrahamson
#32. If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
Karl Marx
#33. If you can see the vision of your goal clearly, you can plan and map effectively, and navigate efficiently.
Steve Maraboli
#34. It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever! sooner or later they will give themselves away.
Agatha Christie
#35. If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
Anne Enright
#36. If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.
Robert Elias
#37. If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.
John Doerr
#38. If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
Ben Hogan
#39. If you can't look in the mirror and genuinely love 100% of what you see, how can you possibly say "i love you" to someone else.
Behdad Sami
#40. To believe something and not live is like making fun of your abilities. You cannot be really trusted if you can dream and doubt its possibility.
Israelmore Ayivor
#41. I know that in the end, God will forgive me. He will forgive your father, me, and you too. I hope you can do the same. Forgive your father if you can. Forgive me if you wish. But most important, forgive yourself.
Khaled Hosseini
#42. My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'
Josh Charles
#43. Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
Daniel Schorr
#44. Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.
Jan Karon
#45. If you can't love yourself the world will only hate you.
Debasish Mridha
#46. If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
Toni Morrison
#47. What you are or where you came from is not important. It is who you are and the choices you make, that determine who you will become. If you can look inward and be satisfied, the opinions of others should melt away.
J.D. Stroube
#48. You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a line from the show and you both start laughing.
Eric Andre
#49. What happens if the cause dies? What happens if people die? Why would I subject myself to that? It's just easier to not." She said.
"I suppose, but what's the use of living in freedom if you can't free others, too?" I asked her.
Meghan Blistinsky
#50. A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question ... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.
Ernst Haas
#51. You should never be in a hurry if you can help it. It's bad for everything. Bad for the stomach, the spleen, the skin. Especially bad for the joints. The knees and ankles. Rushing isn't healthy at all.
Catherine Lacey
#52. But we have all been branded even if you can't see it, inside if not without
Colson Whitehead
#53. If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.
Amanda Seyfried
#54. Of course, if you can pretend to be strong all your life, then you can be very comforting to those around you.
Kurt Vonnegut
#55. Because if you can't dream you can't pretend that he's still there
Ally Condie
#56. If you can't help it, don't think about it
Carmel Myers
#57. Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.
Scott Adams
#58. The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.
Geena Davis
#59. F_k being a script kiddie if you can avoid it - be a hacker.
Kevin D. Mitnick
#60. How can you expect to handle the future if you can't even handle the present?
Daniel Suarez
#61. Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can.
John Lennon
#62. For a number of major companies, if you can't access the commercial markets, you can't fund your business. That's a big problem. You can't pay your bills.
Kenneth Chenault
#63. If you can grasp those two truths - you are made in His image and dependent on Him - you will discover a great dignity and at the same time a profound humility.
Colin S. Smith
#64. If you can go through the pain period, you make it to be a champion. If you can't go through it, forget it. And that's what most people lack: having the guts - the guts to go in and just say ... "I don't care what happens"
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#65. If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours then half hours then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time into bite sized.
Marlon James
#66. Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.
Rumi
#67. If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.
John H. Johnson
#68. You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day
#69. When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.
Tina Fey
#70. If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders.
Geraldine Laybourne
#71. They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
Iggy Azalea
#73. Give as much as you can at every possible opportunity. If you can't afford to give money, give your time. If you can't afford the time, give your heart. Blessings come back to you in unpredictable ways.
Rita Zahara
#74. If you can get to a girl and make a difference in her life, you're actually going to have a greater impact on a woman's life. If you don't get to her as a girl, you may not be able ever to help her as a woman.
Kathy Calvin
#75. The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth.
Louis De Bernieres
#76. Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.
Gabe Newell
#77. If you can laugh with your friends over something, you own it.
Jill Soloway
#78. With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.
Chuck Mangione
#79. If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.
Joel Spolsky
#80. If you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of other people.
Bobby Slayton
#81. Then she said, with mock horror, "She's going to bring some of her old wigs, if you can believe it." She rubbed her bare head with her free hand. "I'll look like a zombie Margaret Thatcher.
Patrick Ness
#83. Sincerity: that's the hard part. If you can fake that, the rest is easy.
Steve Krug
#84. What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?
Drew Carey
#85. If you can read this, thank a teacher.
Anonymous
#86. If you aren't happy with your life, change things until you are ... if you can't change something, change your attitude about it.
Ingrid Weir
#87. You're never rich enough if you can be richer.
Jules Verne
#88. But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
Anita Roddick
#90. Amanda: I guess if you can have faith you can't just have it when the miracles happen. You have to have it when they don't.
Eric Kripke
#91. What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help?
Amber Riley
#92. If you can manage to be thankful in every situation, really believing that God is working everything out for your good, you will end up with the victory every single time.
Joyce Meyer
#93. Betsy doesn't keep beautiful things to herself. I've learned from her that a pretty thing isn't worth much if you can't share it with anyone. It's just a thing. Only when you let others enjoy it, too, does it become beautiful
Susan Gloss
#94. If you can keep learning, you can still do your thing, and keep singing or whatever, and still do innovative things.
Michael Angelo Batio
#95. And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can.
Tobias Wolff
#96. Life Lessons According to Camryn:
One must handle stress like a dog; if you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away
Kelly Moran
#97. If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you.
T.D. Jakes
#98. Sometimes the best goal you can set is just to get out of bed every day. If you can succeed at this, then other things become possible.
Cynthia Patterson
#99. Ronnie snarled and Brendon roared back.
Her eyes narrowed. "You roared at me?"
"And I'll do it again if you can't keep your paws off my Oreos.
Shelly Laurenston
#100. Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.
Harvey MacKay
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