Top 100 I Can Do Quotes
#1. Here I am," I say to the palm trees. "I can do this. Watch me.
Eileen Granfors
#2. when people come up with new ideas, they have to have confidence in themselve to say " i can do it
Ellen Sabin
#3. I can't worry about match too much. There's nothing I can do.
Andy Murray
#4. You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.
Sam Shepard
#5. The best gift I could give my father would be to represent India in the Olympics. If I can do that in 2016, and even win a medal, it will be fantastic.
Jeev Milkha Singh
#6. A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.
Paul Butterfield
#8. The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.
Stephen Malkmus
#9. I'm unapologetic not because I'm strong-willed or overconfident, I'm unapologetic because this is it; this is my life. There is nothing I can do, no one I can please. I am a person with a strong sense of being, that's all.
Jean Seberg
#10. She looked up at her father. "I am bound so tight by oaths that I feel like a fly in a spider's web. All I can do is use every resource I have before the spider strikes.
Gwynn White
#11. Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.
Jimmy Page
#12. When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
Jack Henry Abbott
#13. You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'
Ian Hislop
#14. In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
F. Sionil Jose
#15. I don't care what anyone says. It's my life, and I can do what I like.
Katie Price
#16. All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.
Joko Beck
#17. I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.
Sarah Dessen
#18. It doesn't seem to matter what we think ... The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.
Shannon Hale
#19. A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
Madeleine L'Engle
#20. If you brave enough to live it, the least I can do is listen.
Cynthia Bond
#21. I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.
Milan Kundera
#22. I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.
Alex O'Loughlin
#23. You are mine. I can do what I want with you. I can dress you. Fuck you. Send you away. Loan you to others. You belong to me. And you've finally realized it isn't romantic, it isn't sexy, or fun. It's something no one should want or desire. You're a captive.
Pepper Winters
#24. Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
Heywood Broun
#25. What I won't do is let you give up ... And you're going to have to do all the fighting, sweetheart. You have to be the strong one. All I can do is hold your hand and stand beside you.
Olivia Cunning
#26. I can do crunches all day long, but in yoga my core was challenged in a way that I never felt before.
Eddie George
#27. There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago.
Robert Redford
#28. Probably is absolutely the best I can do.
Eoin Colfer
#29. I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude toward feminism. So what I can do is, in ways that are appropriate, advocate for feminism and help the students learn what feminism is about.
Roxane Gay
#30. I have found that what drives me is the desire to prove, to myself and to my peers, that I can do what I set out to do and build something that matters.
Daniel Snyder
#31. We've taken on health care in a big way in our office, ever since nine years ago when I was paralyzed. I was in eight different hospitals, three different rehab centers, and all the rooms were dreadful. As an architect, designer, and patient, I can do something to help.
Michael Graves
#32. That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love' - as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one.
Patrick Marber
#33. I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run the whole spectrum. "I can do it all. I can do minimalism, and I can do classical art." Well, that's not true.
Sylvester Stallone
#34. People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.
Eddie Trunk
#35. I figure J-Lo does all these movies and all these videos and all this other stuff ... I know I can play tennis and act and do photo shoots and model. I know I can do all that.
Serena Williams
#37. All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape.
Blind Melon
#38. I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm an interpreter. I like getting a script, seeing a character and thinking, "Oh, wow, I know what I can do with that."
Mark Strong
#39. My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.
Kathleen Turner
#40. I know what I can do, so I never doubt myself.
Usain Bolt
#41. If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
Harrison Ford
#42. First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
Haile Gebrselassie
#43. And when somebody comes up to me with big hair and gobs of makeup on and says, 'Can I help you,' it's all I can do not to scream, 'Bitch, you can't even help yourself.
Michael Cunningham
#44. I believe that I must do everything I can do to lessen misery. That's all I can do, and that is something enormous. It is a great power.
Anne Rice
#45. I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like that. I feel like that's the next phase of my career. To reprove to everyone that I can do things besides the crazy characters.
Ari Graynor
#46. There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.
Chris Witty
#47. My favorite hobby is cooking and eating. There is nothing i can do well if i have not eaten well.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#48. You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
Barack Obama
#49. I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.
Richard Branson
#50. As a parent, the most responsible thing I can do is get as much information about my children as possible so I can then think through how I can make them as healthy as possible.
Anne Wojcicki
#51. But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
Keith Richards
#53. Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not be organized? And then when Christmas arrives I won't have to go near the horrible Christmas crowds.
Sophie Kinsella
#54. I am only capable of what I allow myself to believe I can do.
Erin Willett
#56. The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it.
Doseone
#57. I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel.
John Malkovich
#58. What inspires me is when I see something and I say, "I can do that too!"
Signe Baumane
#59. And I found that I can do it if I choose to - I can stay awake and let the sorrows of the world tear me apart and then allow the joys to put me back together different from before but whole once again.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
#60. As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
Jack Henry Abbott
#61. Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."
Swami Vivekananda
#62. For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.
Tatiana Maslany
#63. And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily
open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.
Eugene H. Peterson
#64. You have to get up every morning and tell yourself 'I can do this.'
Julie Johnston
#65. I prefer to rejoice in what I can do, not mourn what I can't.
Lena Maria
#66. I want to say we're okay, Bliss. I need you, too. But I can't pretend I wasn't hoping this would go somewhere. I don't know if I can do it. The truth is ... you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don't love me back ... it hurts.
Cora Carmack
#67. This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.
Candace Bushnell
#68. I can do anything I set my mind to if I believe and am realistic.
Aleks Paunovic
#69. I can't hate people for making judgment on me, or making a decision of liking me or not liking me. All I can do is try to better as a person. And I'm good with knowing everything isn't always going to be perfect.
Chris Brown
#70. I was nervous. I was thinking, 'Gee, he's Ralph Fiennes. What an amazing actor, and I can have this scene with him.' But I enjoyed it, you know. That's what I got into acting to do - to push myself and see if I can do these things.
Matthew Lewis
#71. What I like about modelling is that it has given me that opportunity to travel and experience different cultures, work with creative people, and now it's given me a voice, and with that voice hopefully I can do good things with it.
Miranda Kerr
#72. The planet of humans and dogs spins and sails, spins and sails.
There is nothing I can do about it. Things keep moving. The knackery never shuts down.
Andrew Smith
#73. Salvation comes through repetition. This I can do because I have done it before - it's half prayer, half truth, a whisper in a hurricane of self-doubt.
Kevin Hazzard
#74. Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.
Olga Korbut
#75. I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.
Parker Posey
#76. I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.
George A. Romero
#77. No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.
Jack London
#78. I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan's are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions. And of course, there actually are no real Vulcan's, though I know the ins and outs of them as fictional characters.
Brad Warner
#79. I want to raise my kids, I want to get them through their teenage years ... I do love my work with the UN and with PSVI so if I can do more of that and be more effective I will do whatever I can.
Angelina Jolie
#80. Time is pulling us apart. With every second that passes, the space between us widens. Today, I saw him yesterday. In a few days, it will have been last week. Then, last month. And there is nothing I can do to keep time from wedging more of itself between us. It is inevitable. - Miles
Will Kostakis
#81. That wasn't about pity.I'm going to come inside you.Soon.But I'm going to take you in a bed where I can do a hell of a lot more than a frantic fuck.
Katie Reus
#82. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.
Haruki Murakami
#83. I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.
Corey Smith
#84. When lies are swarming and attacking me like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes, the best thing I can do is open God's Word and immerse myself in His truth. Lies flee in the presence of truth.
Lysa TerKeurst
#85. The horse is a gift to us, to humanity. And for that, there comes responsibility. If the horse is gonna work for you and work with you, then the best thing I can do for the horse is to make it as good a life possible.
Buck Brannaman
#86. I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.
Kristen Bell
#87. I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.
Pat Morita
#88. I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.
Criss Angel
#89. The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.
Dalai Lama
#90. I have to go out there and show scouts and GMs and coaches just what I can do: Run as fast as I can and try to show them I have great hands and good technique where I can be on the line blocking.
Maxx Williams
#91. I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.
Lori Greiner
#92. Singing the songs, writing the lyrics, emotioning the words; that is all I can do for love.
M.F. Moonzajer
#93. I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.
Ronaldo
#95. I can't do much yet, but even if I can do a little to help ... I want to give it all I have! If a person doesn't do anything, they never get any better. Doing one little thing, taking one little step forward ... I gotta believe it will help build a better future!
CLAMP
#96. Let me always be happy, so I can do my best, at home, at school, at work, at rest.
Simon Birks
#97. President George Washington used to wear a wig and make-up. I mean, c'mon, if he could do it, I can do it.
Nikki Sixx
#98. I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE IT UP TO A CHILD TO DECIDE TO EAT JESUS. I HAVE THE HIGHEST RESPECT FOR WHATEVER YOU DO, BUT MY GRANDCHILD IS NOT GOING TO EAT JESUS. I'M SORRY. THAT IS OUT OF THE QUESTION. HERE'S WHAT I'LL DO FOR YOU. I'LL GIVE YOU THE BAPTISM. THAT'S ALL I CAN DO FOR YOU.
Philip Roth
#99. I believe in God ... just in case. It's like there's some list somewhere and you don't want to be on it. I don't want to say THERE'S NO GOD! and then die and say, Oh, Hi ... Is there some kind of community service I can do?
Marc Maron
#100. I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.
A-Trak
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