Top 100 Can't Do Something Quotes
#1. Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.
Taylor Swift
#2. To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.
Eli Broad
#3. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.
Joan Jett
#4. What do you know about women?
They smell nice, they don't like to be told they can't do something, and, when they're naked, they hold some sort of mystical power that overrides our brains and makes us do and say things that would normally be inconceivable.
Katie MacAlister
#5. Our personal history does not inhibit our present or our future. Don't let anyone (including yourself) tell you you can't do something. Find your passion and take action everyday to work towards achieving your life purpose.
Miya Yamanouchi
#6. You will never go beyond the barriers in your own mind. If you think you can't do something, then you never will.
Joel Osteen
#7. There's absolutely no one in the world that can tell you can't do something. You're the only person that can set that limitation.
Andy Biersack
#8. If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
Peter O'Toole
#9. I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.
Tom Cruise
#10. You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
Damian Lewis
#11. I'm a fighter. So if you're going to doubt me or say that I can't do something, I'm going to prove to you I can do it. And when I do it, hopefully I earn your respect and you'll know it didn't come easy to me.
LaMarcus Aldridge
#12. Anybody who says I can't do something, it just motivates me more than you could believe.
Kevin Harvick
#13. If I read a part and think I can connect to it, that I can touch people with it, I will do it, no matter what its size. And if I think I can't do something with a part, I won't take it.
Geraldine Page
#14. If people tell me that i can't do something, i will want to do it.
Seungri
#15. Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean that religion can. It's a simple and logical fallacy to say, 'If science can't do something therefore religion can.'
Richard Dawkins
#16. If somebody's going to tell me I can't do something, I'll break every bone in my body proving them wrong.
Will Hobbs
#17. Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's.
Bram Cohen
#18. I don't know that I ever planned on having children, but it's one thing to decide you aren't going to do something and another thing to be told that you can't do something.
Jay Gironimi
#19. If you can't do something about a situation, there's no point in worrying about it.
David Eddings
#20. One thing about me is that I don't like being told I can't do something.
Molly Quinn
#21. (Roarke) "Those who can't, teach. Isn't there some saying along those lines?"
(Eve) She gave him a blank look. "If you can't do something, how the hell can you teach somebody else to do it?
J.D. Robb
#22. An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.
Alec Issigonis
#23. Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.
Steven Pressfield
#24. When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?
Richie Norton
#25. Nobody's gonna convince me I can't do something till I try it." -- McMurphy
Ken Kesey
#26. There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.
Shannon Miller
#27. Something happens to me when someone says, 'You can't.' I'm generally not very competitive; unless someone tells me I can't do something that should be done.
Jim DeMint
#28. When there are doubters, it always fuels the fire a little bit. When people say you can't do something, if you are a competitor, that drives you.
Ben Roethlisberger
#29. I don't know why it so happens in life that one absolutely can't do something simple but important.
Sasha Sokolov
#30. Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis.
Ali Vincent
#31. People who say you can't do something should be ignored. They're probably talking to themselves.
Eliza Green
#32. All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.
Phil Keoghan
#33. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it.
Chris Gardner
#34. Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.
Lauren Mayberry
#35. It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something.
Henry Rollins
#36. The only people who try to tell you that you can't do something, are the people who have failed
Chris Jericho
#37. As soon as you start to tell yourself in your perception that you can't do something anymore, then your biological system will adjust to prove you right. You will not do what you think you can't do.
Bruce H. Lipton
#38. If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
Anita Roddick
#39. It's about quieting your mind and getting into certain states where everything outside of you doesn't matter in that moment. There are so many things telling you that you can't do something, but you take those thoughts captive, take power over them and change them.
Russell Okung
#40. A lot of the time the experts, the people who are supposed to be able to tell you what to do, will tell you that you can't do something even when you know you can. And a lot of the time it's your friends ... who tell you you can do it.
Mark Zuckerberg
#41. My friend Annabel calls it "Reverse Perfectionism" - if a man thinks he can't do something perfectly, he'd rather not do it at all ...
Shelli NT
#42. How many people actually read the Bible and follow it? The truth is right there. How many people know what a marriage or family is all about? Everything starts with an idea, but getting people to act is different. You can't do something well if you don't know what it is or tried it for awhile.
Phil Mitchell
#43. I think it's my motivation and my dedication to prove everyone wrong whenever they tell me I can't do something.
The Miz
#44. I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'
Lori Wilde
#45. Every time you think you can't do something ... someone else thinks they can.
Robert Kiyosaki
#46. I support anyone finding their worth despite being told they can't do something.
Brooke Elliott
#47. As an actor you always want to be challenged and you always want to have someone tell you you can't do something, because I always want to be like "I can do it and I'll show you I can, and I'll do it better than anyone can".
Chloe Grace Moretz
#49. I'm just saying things never get so bad we can't do something to make them better.
Orson Scott Card
#50. As soon as someone I don't respect tells me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.
Kenneth Branagh
#51. When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.
Marcus Buckingham
#52. I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.
Carol Alt
#53. From the beginning of your career until the end, you have people telling you, you can't do something or you're only going to get so far. That either drives you to be become the best or it stops you at the stipulations that other people have for you.
Dominick Cruz
#54. There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.
Russell Westbrook
#55. I hate being told I can't do something because I'm a girl!
Thanhha Lai
#56. I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.
Bob Dylan
#57. I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.
Ann Bancroft
#58. Don't let anyone tell you you can't do something, because you can!
Greg Plitt
#59. I had a great deal of confidence when I graduated from Berkeley. I had almost none when I was at Princeton. After a while, when people tell you you can't do something because you're a woman, you begin to believe maybe they're right.
Margaret Geller
#60. I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back down from anybody.
Kenyon Martin
#61. You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.
Steve Case
#62. Demagoguery sells. And therefore radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell. You know, when I look at an Ann Coulter or I look at a Rush or I look at a Sean Hannity, I think to myself, 'What kind of self-image do you have?'
Al Franken
#63. Trying is something we do when we think we can't do something. Even if your doing is not as perfect as you would like, decide to do it, and you will.
Lady Nimrod of Buckmore in The Princelings and the Lost City
Jemima Pett
#64. If you think you can't do something, you can't. But if you think you can, you may be surprised to discover that you can.
Peace Pilgrim
#65. Every time someone tells me I can't do something the more I want to do it, not to prove them wrong but because I always knew I could do it.
Justin Bienvenue
#66. and he learned that when Johnson gave an assignment, no excuses were accepted. "He used to say, 'I want only can do people.' That was one of his favorite expressions. 'I only want can do people around. I don't want anybody who tells me that they can't do something.'
Robert A. Caro
#67. I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent.
Steve Burns
#68. A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem. It's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured.
John C. Maxwell
#69. Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it.
Steven Conrad
#70. Telling me that I can't do something is probably the worst thing that anyone can say, because I'll definitely do it. I'm very determined.
Dustin Johnson
#71. Never think you can't do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even after I started writing it, I was like, 'Oh my God, how am I gonna write a book?' Just set your sights high and reach for the stars. Go live your dreams, and never think you can't.
Connor Franta
#72. Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.
Denise Van Outen
#73. Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
Ally Carter
#74. If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done.'
Tony Blair
#75. And whenever somebody says I can't do something, I always think, How would I, if that were a possibility?
Tim Draper
#76. If you tell me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it more.
Josie Maran
#77. If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?
Dalai Lama
#78. I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure it out.
Stephanie Gilmore
#79. Dreams are meant to become reality. Don't ever think you can't do something just because it's difficult.
Melody Anne
#80. If you can't do something smart, do something right.
Joss Whedon
#81. I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.
Willie Aames
#82. You can't do something forever.
Bob Dylan
#83. Don't ever let someone tell you that you can't do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can't do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period.
Will Smith
#84. If you tell me I can't do something, that's the worst thing to tell me. And that's what I tell girls, and what Beckham's about: you can do it, you can do it better, and you can do it in the way you want.
Gurinder Chadha
#85. It's very strange to be completely naked in public," said Jacob. "It isn't something Americans ordinarily do."
"I can't say it's very English, either," replied Henry.
"It's a Scottish thing, though, isn't it? With all the kilts and all that.
Caleb Crain
#86. I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.
George Clooney
#87. God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.
Tess Gerritsen
#88. I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I'd be the joke one.
Lesley Nicol
#89. She sits down at the end of my bed again. "Who were you with? Do you have a boyfriend now or something?"
I can't help but laugh. If I have a boyfriend, his name is Death. And I'm pretty sure Roman is in love with him too. It's a love triangle gone wrong.
Jasmine Warga
#90. It's not very smart to keep trying to do something you can't do and never will be able to do.
Steve Brown
#91. You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.
Paul Auster
#92. And you shouldn't choose to care about someone. There shouldn't be a time and a place for it. Either you do or you don't. Don't try." He looks off. "There can be falseness in trying to do something that should come naturally to people.
Celia Mcmahon
#93. Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.
Frank Gehry
#94. If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.
Simon Baker
#95. I don't have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and a novel a few pages, then if I can stop reading without a sense of loss, I do, and I go on to something else.
Flannery O'Connor
#96. Whenever something bad happens, do not forget to smile. Even if you have to deal with this really arrogant, ruthless tycoon. You never know, sometimes a very rude and arrogant person can be melted with a heartfelt smile.
Zainab T. Khan
#97. Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and it really doesn't have a lot to do with enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#98. I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.
Mark Strong
#99. When you have something you would die to protect it ceases to be a matter of courage." Niobe explained, "You just know what you have to do and you can't afford fear.
Piers Anthony
#100. Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.
Mark Twain
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