Top 100 It Can't Be Done Quotes
#1. Perseverance is demonstrated by those who keep going when the going gets tough, who don't give up even when others say, It can't be done.
James E. Faust
#2. If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.
Ted Cruz
#3. Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.
H.G.Wells
#4. Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.
Tim Ferriss
#5. Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.
Ayn Rand
#6. I think it takes some terrible or great event to fuse two people together without inhibition. Without heat or shock, it can't be done. I believe that's why sexual love, which needn't be, is so intensely intertwined with sin.
Mark Helprin
#7. Mourn, cry, be sad god doesn't give a fuck. The life has been taken in one or other way and it can't be done anything that's all, it's not big philosophy - it's short and it can't be more longer than this!
Deyth Banger
#8. Just because people tell you it can't be done, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be done. It just means that they can't do it.
Anders Hejlsberg
#9. There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can't be done ... and the ones who just do it.
Hoda Kotb
#10. As the Chinese proverb says, 'Those who say it can't be done shouldn't interrupt those who are doing it.
Mollie Culligan
#11. Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
James Baldwin
#12. Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
#13. If it can't be done in bed, it's not worth doing.
Dave Van Ronk
#14. Most people would deny such a world (ancient highly advanced civilizations in the remote past) ever existed because it would be so at odds with their daily experience. We would have the same we-can't-do-it-so-it-can't-be-done mentality ...
David Icke
#15. An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.
Peter Diamandis
#16. When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.
Vidal Sassoon
#17. Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you.
Diana Gabaldon
#18. To remain motivated, be deaf to people who keep saying to you that it can't be done.
Amey Hegde
#19. Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly.
Colm Toibin
#20. The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert Hubbard
#21. Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.
Michael Flatley
#22. If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
Taylor Caldwell
#23. Evil must be confronted in its womb and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.
Vaclav Havel
#24. No matter what it is that you want to do, you should dream as big as you can and go for it. Don't let anyone tell you that it can't be done because that's the worst advice. Do whatever you want to do and hard work will make it pay off.
Logan Henderson
#25. Lift up your eyes, discouraged one. When you feel like giving up, when they say it can't be done, it's up to you to show them why they're wrong.
Matty Mullins
#26. If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
Peter Ustinov
#27. The real leaders intend to do definitely that good task for which a pretender has provoked them by saying that it can't be done, but the good number of pretenders tend to do only that job for which a real leader has cautioned them by showing the things that should not be done.
Anuj
#29. Certainly, if the world ever is saved, it'll be by somebody young enough not to know that it can't be done.
Donald Hamilton
#30. Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done.
Benjamin Morrell
#31. Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them, he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.
Susanna Kearsley
#32. Whenever they say it can't be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.
John Mayer
#33. THOSE WHO SAID IT CAN'T BE DONE ... SHOULDN'T GET IN MY WAY WHILE I'M DOING IT!
Rosetta D. Hoessli
#34. It's never been done doesn't mean it can't be done.
Kathy Ireland
#35. There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#36. Don't try to fix the past, dear one - it can't be done.
Terry Goodkind
#37. The positive thinker seeks to answer the question "how can I do it?", rather than simply saying "it can't be done.
Amey Hegde
#38. They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
Casey Stengel
#39. My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.
Marianne Faithfull
#40. There are many things we don't understand, and many ways to unlock the brain and maximize function. Don't ever let anybody tell you it can't be done.
Sally Fryer Dietz
#41. But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.
Henry Rollins
#42. Refuse to accept the many reasons why it can't be done, and ask if there are any reasons it can be done.
Hanoch McCarty
#43. If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.
Tom Robbins
#44. Never let those who say it can't be done obstruct you from pursuing your goals.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#45. When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.
Lynn Hill
#46. If you think something's too hard, it will be. If you think it's just not possible or not possible for you, then you'll probably be right. If you think it can't be done then you're not the person to do it. Because you'll fail.
Peggy Haymes
#47. Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That idea is a kind of joke on both authors and readers. All the readers believe that authors do it. All the authors know that it can't be done.
Ayn Rand
#48. We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.
Zev Yaroslavsky
#49. Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.
Paul Auster
#50. If God can't do it, then it can't be done, nor was it meant to be done!
Angel Brown
#51. My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: It can't be done.
John Scarne
#52. The person who says it can't be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.
Shannon L. Alder
#53. Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you've decided beforehand it can't be done.
Steven D. Levitt
#54. Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.
Bo Bennett
#55. They're going to say that because no one else has ever done something, that it can't be done. You have to be crazy enough to believe that you are the one person in the history of the world who can create that change or accomplish that dream.
Ronda Rousey
#56. Don't blame you for trying to run away from yourself, but it can't be done - not even in a Buick.
Kurt Vonnegut
#57. To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately.
Robert Silverberg
#58. A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.
Napoleon Hill
#59. If someone tells you it can't be done. Smile and humbly agree. Then go back and work so hard that you can prove them wrong equally as fast.
Avijeet Das
#60. Luckily i went out and just did it, successfully, before i was told that it can't be done!
Den-J
Denis John George
#61. Coming back to where you grew up is like doing some crazy yoga trick, putting your feet in your own mouth and somehow swallowing yourself so there's nothing left; it can't be done, and any sane person ought to be fucking glad it can't . . .
Stephen King
#62. .:Just 'coz experiences have showed that it can't be done a certain way, doesn't necessary means one is to quit trying:..
Rafael Garcia
#63. The fallacy of trying to time the highs and lows Trying to time the highs and lows of the market is a fool's game. It can't be done with any reliability, and you shouldn't waste your time trying.
Jesse Mecham
#64. Stay away from 'it-can't-be-done-people' because they are often mistaken! All you need is to have 'it-can-be-done-people' around you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
Calvin Coolidge
#66. True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
William Bennett
#67. Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.
Kim Cattrall
#68. It's about doing it in a way that it can't be done any better. That is the goal every day.
Geno Auriemma
#69. So what if you believe it can't be done. Stop trying to prevent those who do believe from reaching for the stars.
Teyla Branton
#70. Every once in a while you must go to cash, take a break, take a vacation. Don't try to play the market all the time. It can't be done, too tough on the emotions.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#71. The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
Mary Frances Berry
#72. The skeptics who say it can't be done are simply in extremely limited states of mind. They can't even perceive the possibility of anybody doing something that they can't do.
Frederick Lenz
#73. Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#74. Don't let them tell you it can't be done.
Jack Layton
#75. Tell me again about how it's impossible to do and how it can't be done, then get out of my way and watch me do it.
Mak W Boyer
#76. Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
Bernard Baruch
#77. If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done.
Warren Buffett
#78. When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist.
Paul Arden
#79. Just because you don't know how to do something doesn't mean it can't be done.
Jeaniene Frost
#80. I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions. Well, why? People would say, it's never been done. It's never been done does not mean that it can't be done.
Kathy Ireland
#81. No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete spectrum of the various kind of realities that you confront with your ideas.
Thom Mayne
#82. New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Arthur C. Clarke
#83. For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.
Franz Kafka
#84. We limit ourselves by thinking things can't be done. Many think peace in the world is impossible - many think that inner peace cannot be attained. It is the one who doesn't know it can't be done who does it!
Peace Pilgrim
#85. The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.
Christopher Hitchens
#86. The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Elbert Hubbard
#87. For those who kept saying it can't be done:
Never are the victories or the honors won.
But, rather,
By the believing, doing kind,
While the doubters watched
From Far Behind.
Bruce Lee
#88. I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.
Ben Hogan
#89. Ignore them. They don't know what it is to make a difficult decision."
"You wouldn't have done it, I bet."
"That is only because I have been taught to be cautious when I don't know all the information, and you have been taught that risks can produce great rewards.
Veronica Roth
#90. Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.
Maureen Dowd
#91. 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
#92. It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.
Cliff Richard
#93. I believe in violence, I believe violence can be solved by greater violence. I also know greater violence breeds more violence. I'm certain now, that violence is like energy; it can't be destroyed, it will always be passed on, as it will be done to you
Cheyi Okoaye
#94. We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.
Alice Waters
#95. What a diva!"
"Stupid, men can't be divas ... "
"Divo, then."
"That just sounds weird. Call him a jerk and be done with it.
Lisa Mantchev
#96. Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.
John Scalzi
#97. When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
Garrison Keillor
#98. I joined a band because I didn't like school, and there's nothing else I'd rather have done. If I really wanted to make money, I'd be in real estate. But I'm rich enough. I have a son and daughter, a lovely home, and if I see something I like, I can buy it. That's rich enough.
Robert Palmer
#99. I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
George Eliot
#100. Whenever I finished filming a movie, I felt my job was only half done. Every film had to be nurtured in the marketplace. You can have the greatest movie in the world, but if you don't get it out there, if people don't know about it, you have nothing.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
