
Top 100 Think You Can Quotes
#1. If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your mind.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#2. I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
Finn Wittrock
#3. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourself. p.32
Stephen Elliott
#4. I used to wonder which would be harder: having no one to believe in you or someone who believes in you so much that their love could burn you to the ground. Someone who knows you can give more than you think you can. Not just love. Ferocity.
J. Michael Straczynski
#5. Do you really think you can just walk back in here and expect us all to cooperate after what you did?"
"Would it help at all if I said I was sorry?
E.J. Fisch
#6. I think you can learn to have much more pleasant thoughts moving through your mind that will help ease any situation, and it takes making a conscious choice to do so.
Louise Hay
#7. You can not libel the dead, I think, you can only console them.
Anne Enright
#8. I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.
Patrick Rothfuss
#9. Going in one more round when you don't think you can that's what makes all the difference in your life.
Sylvester Stallone
#10. I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you can't make it without some fat cat in London or New York to manage you. That's just crap. All you need is someone a bit older than you with a bit of business nous whom you trust.
Johnny Marr
#11. Here's how I think you can get your confidence back, kid: Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn't always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine. Now,
Mindy Kaling
#12. You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
Jack McCollough
#13. It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.
Neve Campbell
#14. Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
Fay Weldon
#15. At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don't see how your gestures already mirror his; you don't see him in the way you hold your body, in the way you sign your name. You don't hear his whisper in your blood.
Salman Rushdie
#16. Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect.
Laozi
#17. The vicious cycle starts: if you fail at something, you think it is your fault. Therefore you think you can't do that task. As a result, next time you have to do the task, you believe you can't, so you don't even try. The result is that you can't, just as you thought.
Donald A. Norman
#18. Oh, Stuart. You think you can do anything. It's one of your great charms, but it's also one of your most aggravating qualities when you think you can move unmovable mountains.
Judith Ivory
#19. *Cheating. Of any sort. And before you get all cocky and think you can easily handle this one, let me tell you what "cheating" means in my dictionary. Anything you wouldn't do if my daughter, or myself, were watching is cheating. Yeah - shit just got real. I'll
S.E. Hall
#20. What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.
Buzz Aldrin
#21. I think I've got better at expressing my emotions. But going through the education system I went through - I don't think you can go to boarding school and come out without feeling a little repressed - yes, it does leave its mark on you.
Julian Ovenden
#22. Jerry Lawler walks in here with his crown - DA DA DUM - Imperial Margerine - and talks about what he's going to do to me. Lawler, if you think you're going to beat me, if you think you can do ANYTHING to me, than you really are the king. King of FOOLS, jack!!
Roddy Piper
#23. If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.
Rita Mae Brown
#24. Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
Napoleon Hill
#25. You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.
Sander Levin
#26. If I'm not the one thing you can't stand to lose,
If I'm not that arrow to the heart of you,
If you don't get drunk on my kiss,
If you think you can do better than this then I guess we're done.
Let's not drag this on,
Consider me gone ...
Reba McEntire
#27. I think it's exactly like that. When you think you can't do it anymore. You have to ignore it and keep going. Trust in your training.
Amy Jo Cousins
#28. You can't sit there and feel bad for yourself and say, "But, it's just not coming to me." That's an instinctual thing to do because that's the way the business normally works. But, when you've got a good brain on your shoulders, I think you can make it happen.
Katie Aselton
#29. I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice.
Linda Ronstadt
#30. When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.
Sylvester Stallone
#31. If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.
Alexa Vega
#32. I think you can still look to Jesus' word for guidance in your life. It's just not the guidance that it seems like most Christians are applying to their own lives.
Craig Thompson
#33. I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks.
Joe Cocker
#34. Afterward, I remember, General Roosevelt said to me, Now, you see, if you think you can, or somebody who believes in you thinks you can, why, then you can!
Norman Vincent Peale
#35. What do you always think about? What do you think you can do easily? What do you find peace in your heart to do? Watch those things carefully because among them is something on which you can turn the entire environment surrounding you for your success.
Israelmore Ayivor
#36. When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
Olivia Wilde
#37. Capricorn was one of the homes of the Southern rock movement with the Allman Brothers and Charlie Daniels and the Marshall Tucker Band. I don't think you can come from that area and not be influenced by that stuff a little bit, no matter what generation you grew up in.
Jason Aldean
#39. I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.
Jessa Crispin
#40. Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.
George Osborne
#41. It makes my head explode when there are people who think you can do everything in HTML.
James Gosling
#42. I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact.
Rita Mae Brown
#43. I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.
Rupert Friend
#44. The dance community suddenly came alive with programs like 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'America's Best Dance Crew' and 'Dancing With The Stars.'
Nigel Lythgoe
#45. Success is a mind-set. If you think you can't achieve something, then you won't but if you believe you can achieve something, then nothing will stand in your way.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#46. I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
Callie Khouri
#47. Yoga is not about touching your toes. It's about unlocking your ideas about what you want, where you think you can go, and how you will achieve it when you get there.
Cyndi Lee
#48. I admire him so much; if I was ever going to have a dude-crush, it would be on George Clooney. I mean, I don't think you can avoid it. It's like a superpower - he just sucks anybody in around him.
John Krasinski
#49. If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
George Eliot
#50. I don't think you can escape the environment we live in now.
Donald Fagen
#51. I just feel like [creativity] is a reflection of the world around me and I don't think you can divorce yourself from that. So I don't really think in terms of, 'Do you still have it?' Even if I was doing something new, I think I would be engaged in the same process.
Antony Hegarty
#52. You always think you can make it up to somebody - later, you know.' She took a deep breath. 'But now I never can. I never can.
Alan Dean Foster
#53. I think you can't really reach the emotionally intense stuff without having built a genuine light, playful, connected energy, to begin with.
Rose McIver
#54. It is equally vain," she thought, "for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light of truth beats upon us without shadow, and the light of truth is damnably unbecoming to us both.
Virginia Woolf
#55. It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.
Karen Duffy
#56. It's funny how sometimes you don't see the obvious things coming. You think you know what life has in store for you. You think you're prepared. You think you can handle it. And then-boom, like a thunderclap-something comes at you out of nowhere and catches you off guard.
Cynthia Hand
#57. Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#58. When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.
Carolina Herrera
#59. I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.
Jessica Lange
#60. The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.
Geoffrey Canada
#61. You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.
Yul Vazquez
#62. Get away from these two types of people: the ones who think you can only go as far as the situation you were born into; and the ones who think you can only go as far as the current situation you are in.
Dee Dee M. Scott
#63. I'm not a big believer in doing too much research - I think you can get lost in it. You can get constrained by it, which I think is a mistake. But if you've done your homework, the audience feels it.
Jonathan Nolan
#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. I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do.
Roy Wood
#66. I have a special gift, and I go out and use it. I don't think you can hide it. I'm just confident in myself-always have been.
Clinton Portis
#67. I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
Bernard Malamud
#68. Sometimes you think you can see around corners, and maybe you can.
Stephen King
#69. It's really important to find an hour or two to a day to make sure that you keep healthy, keep fit. It's very easy just to forget that aspect. And if you're feeling really good and fit, I think you can get two or three extra hours a day of hard work in as well.
Richard Branson
#70. Whether you think you can, or you think you can't
you're right.
Henry Ford
#71. I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science.
Robert Winston
#72. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Henry Ford
#73. I've had lots of friends who've gone through 'Battlefield' situations in their relationships, so when I was singing the song I put myself in their position and tried to imagine what they were going through. I got so, so into it and I think you can tell.
Jordin Sparks
#74. Never fear what people will say ... Never think you can't do it because it was never done before! You can be the source of change that is suspending for quite a long period now! You too can fly!
Israelmore Ayivor
#75. I am who I am and I don't think you can put a label on it.
Cody Johnson
#76. I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.
Christina Aguilera
#77. Kate(Henshaw-Nuttal) was superb. The same for Stella(Damasus-Aboderin) and, of course, Jeta and Jumai(Joseph). They can work anywhere in the world. I think you can put Jeta and Stella on a plane and fly them to London or to Los Angeles to go and work.
Nick Moran
#78. Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try.
Peter C Newman
#79. Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and very strong. I think make-up goes with that femininity. I think it's a natural gesture for women and one they do more for themselves than for others.
Monica Bellucci
#80. Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.
Dylan Thomas
#82. -Who are you, anyway?
-Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#83. My pop always said poverty fucks with you... makes you think you can do things you really can't and start selling your soul for things that are priceless.
J.J. McAvoy
#84. I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.
Eric Lindros
#85. You believe this is a game, and you may be right. But if you think you can play it better than me, think again.
Ellen Hopkins
#86. I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
Taylor Hackford
#87. If there are two feelings, then I don't think you can put them in separate compartments ever, because one is a part of the other and inseparable.
Winston Graham
#88. My mind is like a sea
You will only drown,
If you think you can swim
There are things that devours me,
No love can ever save me.
J. Limbu
#89. Raise both your hands if you think you can get a fair trial in this country. There, now the stupid among you have dropped the book and the rest of us can continue on.
Christopher McDevitt
#90. I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.
Anne Rice
#91. I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.
Bell Hooks
#92. I think you can walk and chew gum at the same time. I think you can oppose the president on some issue that you fundamentally disagree with, but also work with the other party on issues you do agree with.
Paul Ryan
#93. I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.
Madonna Ciccone
#94. I think its naive to think you can push yourself as hard as someone else can push you, but I work really hard on my own. I know my body.
Charlie Weber
#95. There are certain things in 'Descender' that I've dealt with in the past. I think you can see a direct parallel with Sweet Tooth in TIM-21.
Jeff Lemire
#96. A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.
Annie Leibovitz
#97. People like him think you can apologize things away, that you can confess over and over until you are free to repeat your crime.
Philipp Meyer
#98. You've got to make sure every decision you make is right for you as a person. If you think you can go to a better club than the one you're at, then, regardless of what anyone says, you should go.
Alan Smith
#99. The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
Patrick Rothfuss
#100. To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.
Eric Hoffer
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