Top 100 Quotes About Can't Be Done
#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. 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
#3. 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
#4. I need some time to myself by myself! There must be time for thought and music and peace and solitude! Also: No one can keep a creative house and work every day from nine to five. Can't be done, folks. Ain't no way.
Pearl Cleage
#5. That's calculus in a nutshell. It takes a problem that can't be done with regular math because things are constantly changing - the changing quantities show up on a graph as curves - it zooms in on the curve till it becomes straight, and then it finishes off the problem with regular math.
Mark Ryan
#6. You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.
K.J. Bishop
#7. The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Elbert Hubbard
#8. The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.
Christopher Hitchens
#9. The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.
Adam Braun
#10. Sometimes it's better not to ask-or to listen-when tell you something can't be done. I didn't ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it.
Michael Dell
#11. You can make money in a small way without politics. But to make big money, you need to buy the legislature. Can't be done otherwise.
Edward Rutherfurd
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Don't be telling me
can't be done. That's some god damney white talk, that's what that is.
Sue Monk Kidd
#15. I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!
Claude Monet
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. There's nothing that can't be done if we raise our voice as one.
Michael Jackson
#19. Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.
Dean Young
#20. 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
#21. I know love, and what it does to you, for you. I know that it can bloom out of friendship, or that friendship can open out of love. Both are precious. And when you have both, there's little that can't be done.
J.D. Robb
#22. Just because you don't know how to do something doesn't mean it can't be done.
Jeaniene Frost
#23. The man who despises himself tries to gain self-esteem from sexual adventures - which can't be done, because sex is not the cause, but an effect and an expression of a man's sense of his own value.
Ayn Rand
#24. When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist.
Paul Arden
#25. 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
#26. Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
Bernard Baruch
#27. 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
#28. There is nothing."
Philosophy
That can't be done."
Religion
Two negatives equals a positive."
Math
Dustin Sweet
#29. I only know that since he left,
My life's so empty.
Though I try to forget,
It just can't be done.
Hal David
#30. Don't let them tell you it can't be done.
Jack Layton
#31. Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#32. 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
#33. I always try to do the most important or urgent tasks first, I avoid waiting till the last minute to finish things, and I value my time. I work smarter by valuing my time and doing the things that can't be done without me while hiring a great team around me to do the rest of the things.
Jeet Banerjee
#34. 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
#35. I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.
Saul Williams
#36. Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes
that type of work requires legions of people. In order to do things well, that can't be done by one person, you must find extraordinary people.
Steve Jobs
#37. Anything that can't be done in bed isn't worth doing at all.
Groucho Marx
#38. When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.
Malcolm Forbes
#39. 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
#40. One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.
Fred Wilson
#41. 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
#42. It's about doing it in a way that it can't be done any better. That is the goal every day.
Geno Auriemma
#43. When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.
Robert Breault
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. .: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
#50. 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
#51. If anyone tells you that something can't be done, they're correct, but it only pertains to them.
Rob Liano
#52. You need to listen to the people experiencing the problems, and their ideas need to crowd out the words of the 'can't be done-ers.'
Ann Cotton
#53. Luckily i went out and just did it, successfully, before i was told that it can't be done!
Den-J
Denis John George
#54. 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
#55. The athlete who says that something can't be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it
John Wooden
#56. 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
#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. Don't blame you for trying to run away from yourself, but it can't be done - not even in a Buick.
Kurt Vonnegut
#59. 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
#60. The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.
Tony Blair
#61. And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.
Arthur Laffer
#62. Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.
Bo Bennett
#63. Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you've decided beforehand it can't be done.
Steven D. Levitt
#64. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done, even if it's weird.
Maureen Johnson
#65. The person who says it can't be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.
Shannon L. Alder
#66. This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.
Maureen Johnson
#67. 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
#68. If God can't do it, then it can't be done, nor was it meant to be done!
Angel Brown
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. People who "know" can tell you all the things that can't be done and why. People who "know" don't need to learn because they already have the answers. People who "know" are complete - or perhaps just finished. More often than not, people who "know" are also people who "no.
Anonymous
#73. There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.
Eric Butterworth
#74. Nothing I do can't be done by a ten-year-old ... with fifteen years of practice.
Harry Blackstone Jr.
#75. Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
Robert A. Heinlein
#76. 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
#77. If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
Taylor Caldwell
#78. [Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.
Philippe Halsman
#79. Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.
Michael Flatley
#80. 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
#81. Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly.
Colm Toibin
#82. A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.
Gunter Grass
#83. To remain motivated, be deaf to people who keep saying to you that it can't be done.
Amey Hegde
#84. How can I help being a humbug ... when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?
L. Frank Baum
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.
Peter Diamandis
#88. 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
#89. It is true that renewable energy is expensive and can't be done without public sector support, it is an important investment in the future.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#90. If it can't be done in bed, it's not worth doing.
Dave Van Ronk
#91. 'Faces' became more than a film. It became a way of life, a film against the authorities and the powers that prevent people from expressing themselves the way they want to, something that can't be done in America, that can't be done without money.
John Cassavetes
#92. Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
#93. It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.
Terry Pratchett
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
Henry Ford
#99. 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
#100. Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.
Ayn Rand
