Quotes starting with Y
Below you will find our collection of inspirational quotes and sayings starting with the letter Y, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
Quotes
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Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
You are what you eat. -- German Proverb
You become what you think about. -- Buddha (Thanks to Ami Kapilevich for the correction)
You can do anything with children if only you play with them. -- German (on parenting and children)
You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back. -- Horace (65-8 BC)
You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. -- John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
You can never plan the future by the past. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
You can only die once. -- Portuguese Proverb
You can't be a true winner until you have lost. -- unknown
You can't beat a dead horse. -- Richard Trench (1807-1886)
You can't build a relationship with a hammer. -- unknown
You can't buy an inch of time with an inch of gold. -- Chinese (on time and timeliness)
You can't buy love. -- unknown
You can't fit a square peg in a round hole. -- unknown
You can't get blood from a stone. -- John Lydgate (c.1370-1451)
You can't have peace any longer than your neighbor pleases. -- Dutch (on war and peace)
You can't have your cake and eat it too. -- John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
You can't judge a horse by its harness. -- Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
You can't make bricks without straw. -- unknown
You can't play all the time. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
You can't please everyone. -- unknown
You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube. -- Japanese (on basic truths)
You can't sew buttons on your neighbor's mouth. -- Russian (on gossip)
You can't stop a pig from wallowing in the mud. -- Yoruba - West Africa (on character and virtue)
You can't teach an old dog new tricks. -- unknown
You can't tell a book by its cover. -- American Proverb
You can't win them all. -- unknown
You cannot carve rotten wood. -- Chinese
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. -- Irish Proverb
You cannot put an old head on young shoulders. -- unknown
You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
You don't get anywhere unless you try. -- unknown
You don't know what you've got until it's gone. -- unknown
You have to earn respect. -- unknown
You have to take the bitter with the sweet. -- unknown
You make the road by walking on it. -- Nicaraguan (on work)
You may delay but time will not. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
You may light another's candle at your own without loss. -- Danish (on generosity)
You never fail until you stop trying. -- unknown - thanks to agate man iwsy
You never know what lies right around the corner. -- unknown
You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks. -- Eskimo (on friends and foes)
You win some, you lose some. -- unknown
You'll never do anything behind you that won't come up in front of you. -- unknown, thanks to "riverrat"
Your own rags are better than another's gown. -- Hausa (West African)(on self-reliance)
Your success and happiness lie in you...resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. -- Helen Keller
Your time is the greatest gift you can give to someone. -- unknown