Top 100 If You Can't Quotes
#1. If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?
Dalai Lama
#2. What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help?
Amber Riley
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can't feel it, you weren't paying attention. And if you weren't paying attention, you are probably dead anyway.
Clint Van Winkle
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?
Drew Carey
#9. If you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of other people.
Bobby Slayton
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.
D.H. Lawrence
#14. If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment.
Joe Biden
#15. Think small ... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.
Richard Hugo
#16. If you can't find anything to complain about you aren't looking hard enough.
Joe Abercrombie
#17. There is one thing new in sexual mores and that is today's bisexual chic ... if you can't truthfully claim to be bisexual yourself, the next best thing is to reveal that one, or both, of your parents was.
Helen Lawrenson
#18. I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.
Meg Rosoff
#19. If you can't write, read.
If you can't read, walk.
Or walk and read, then write.
Joyce Rachelle
#20. If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
Marva Collins
#21. If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way.
Bob Dylan
#22. Your every unique skills, potentially & expertise will be nothing if you can't express at the perfect place at the perfect moment!
Osama Bin Noor
#23. I say, if you can't laugh you might as well laugh anyway.
Stephen King
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. How can you expect to handle the future if you can't even handle the present?
Daniel Suarez
#30. If you can't help it, don't think about it
Carmel Myers
#31. Because if you can't dream you can't pretend that he's still there
Ally Condie
#32. If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.
Amanda Seyfried
#33. But we have all been branded even if you can't see it, inside if not without
Colson Whitehead
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. If you can't love yourself the world will only hate you.
Debasish Mridha
#37. 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
#38. If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
Ben Hogan
#39. If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.
John Doerr
#40. If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.
Robert Elias
#41. 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
#42. Crooked Warden," said Locke, "men are stupid. Protect us from ourselves. If you can't, let it be quick and painless.
Scott Lynch
#43. There are certain treasures that kill you if you can't share them with others.
Michael Ende
#44. 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
#45. I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.
Tori Amos
#46. If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.
Ed Seykota
#47. The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
Anatole France
#49. 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
#50. If you can't read a simple goddam sign and follow one simple goddam instruction then get your fat butt the hell out of here.
Garrison Keillor
#52. If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.]
Harry S. Truman
#53. I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole new world in books. If you can't afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.
Michael Jackson
#54. If you can't tell your own family how you feel, then what's the point in having one?" I shook my head. "I've been here before with 'family.' I just thought this one was different.
Nancy N. Rue
#55. Love is never worthless. Never believe that your love makes no difference. Even if you can't see its impact, the impact is there, if only in the way that it affects your own soul.
Ovadya Ben Malka
#56. America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into the culture-war storyline in ten seconds or less, it dies.
Matt Taibbi
#58. And Tiny is saying, "If you can't trust your gut then what can you trust?"And I say, "You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly," which is true. Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
David Levithan
#59. What are you going to do when you get to eternity, if you can't stick in an hour with God down here?
Leonard Ravenhill
#60. Every woman deserves diamonds, and even if you can't afford to go out and buy diamonds for yourself or you don't have actual stone diamonds, I think when we look at ourselves we should refer to ourselves as a precious stone.
Nia Long
#61. If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.
Lois Wyse
#62. No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong to me-that belongs to you. If you can't remember who I am, I'm no longer famous.
Michael J. Fox
#63. If you can't beat them and don't care to join them, Then " FU*K THEM".
Katraina L Flowers
#64. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama XIV
#65. Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.
Stephen Covey
#66. If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for?
Justin Taylor
#67. The only thing that matters in this game is the score, something hackers never quite understand, even when they think they do. If you can't make a shot eighty percent of the time and there's a penalty if you don't, you shouldn't try it. Ever. No matter where you are.
James Patterson
#68. I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.
Kresley Cole
#69. If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.
Serge Daney
#70. If you can't relax during your interview, then nothing you do to prepare will matter. Being yourself is essential to the selection process, and interviewers will feel it if you're too nervous. Showing fear or anxiety appears weak compared to a relaxed smile and genuine confidence.
Travis Bradberry
#72. When you're doing a film, you're on a set and you have retakes and you have time to get it right. And on 'SNL' it's just go, go, go. If you can't read the cue cards or miss your mark, you're just left to sort of screw up. So there's a lot more pressure doing a live TV show.
Megan Fox
#73. I sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York who gives singing lessons. If she says you can sing, you can take lessons. If you can't sing, I never want you to open your mouth again as long as you live.'
Marcia Strassman
#74. Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.
Maurice Strong
#76. Here's a very simple, common sense idea - if you practice something more, you get better at it; if you can't complete everything you need to do, take more time.
Chris Gabrieli
#77. Give that mint Milano back, you bitch. If you can't at least be polite, you don't get a treat.
Augusten Burroughs
#78. If you can't save your own life, is it even worth saving?
Rainbow Rowell
#79. You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.
Warren Buffett
#80. In life ... everyone hurts over something. But you can't hurt others because you do! Always try to help others and if you can't ... Don't ever hurt them!
Timothy Pina
#81. There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.
Randeep Hooda
#83. took her hands away from her face. It was hard to do. She knew she looked a wreck. But if you can't trust a man to look at your real face and not run screaming, what good is it to have him around in the first place?
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#84. "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'?" How indeed?
Janet Frame
#85. The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.
Seth Godin
#86. You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
Edie Campbell
#87. Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know?
Tommy Lee
#88. If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
Erma Bombeck
#89. If you can't connect the Dots, Find the right dots first.
Mohith Agadi
#90. [ ... ] everything has a narrative, really, and if you can't understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you're not really alive at all.
Catherynne M Valente
#91. If you are not prepared, you cannot work out intensely. If you do not perform, you cannot get results, and if you can't do your best to recover, you won't get the benefits of your hard work.
Kerri Walsh
#92. I ask you, what is the use of having your "cake" if you can't eat it? What exactly are you supposed to do with it? Put it on your mantel and look at it? Cake is meant to be eaten and enjoyed.
T. Harv Eker
#93. Change is important, but if you can't really change it, just keep calm, understand the situation and go through it with a good heart! Time will surely speak with time!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#94. There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.
John Steinbeck
#95. If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.
Peter Drucker
#96. If you can't keep a promise to your family, can't keep a promise to your wife, you're having an affair, you're lying about the affair repeatedly. Why should the American people trust you when you say you're not gonna lie to them. Why should we trust you?
Sean Hannity
#97. Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.
Tom Seaver
#98. Love is hard Phoenix. It's not always easy like you see in fairy tales. You have to take the good with the bad; the scary with the excitement. If you love him, trust him. If not than you need to set him free, but don't leave him if you can't let him go. Think about that one.
Victoria Ashley
#100. If you can't believe then you can't achieve and belief is intrinsic to every human; so what are you waiting for? Go ahead and get what you believe to achieve.
Mumtaz Kazmi
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