Top 100 What You Can Quotes
#1. We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.
John Hurt
#2. What you can still dream about is often sweeter than the reality.
Susan Meissner
#3. That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'
Maya Angelou
#4. You can't control whether or not you have talent. You can't control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued. But what you can control is how much work you put your art-both in terms of creating it and in terms of getting it out there-and that is where I try to focus my energy.
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
#5. Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.
Rachel Johnson
#7. Whereas the craftsman mindset focuses on what you can offer the world, the passion mindset focuses instead on what the world can offer you. This mindset is how most people approach their working lives.
Anonymous
#8. There is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
Ernest Hemingway,
#9. Sometimes lifting yourself out of the ashes will cause you to be burned by other people. Guess what? You can handle it.
Antonio T. Smith Jr.
#10. Do you know what you can do to an enemy but not to a friend? Stab her in the back.
Brent Weeks
#11. It is important to have people believe in you. With this support, what you can achieve is limitless.
Ronnie Coleman
#12. The secret of confidence is focusing on what you can control, not on what you can't.
Mira Kirshenbaum
#13. I know for sure that you cannot give to everyone else and not give back to yourself. You will end up empty, or at best, less than what you can be for yourself and your family and your work. Replenish the well of yourself, for yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#14. Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
Aaron Burr
#15. Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#16. A man of power is a prize bargainer. Whatever he offers you, he will take more in return. Your challenge is to know yourself. Give only what you can, while remaining steadfast to your own truths.
Davis Bunn
#18. Serenity comes from knowing what you can and can't change, Nancy
Patricia Cornwell
#19. You will never know what you can accomplish until you really put in persistent effort and never giving up.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do
Brian Tracy
#21. About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown
#22. You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.
Elizabeth Scott
#23. When encountering emotional vampires, see what you can learn. It's your choice. You can simply feel tortured, resentful, impotent. Or, as I try to do, ask yourself, How can this interaction help me grow?
Judith Orloff
#24. If love what you can't have, then you have to love what you've got
Ed Sheeran
#25. I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it.
Christopher Alexander
#26. A wrong is just a wrong no matter who's doin' it or who it's done to. You know someone's doin' wrong and even if it has not one thing to do with you, you do what you can to right that wrong. You don't, you're no kind of person or, at least, no kind I'd wanna know.
Kristen Ashley
#27. What you can do is create the conditions where change is more likely to happen.
George Couros
#28. The woman said something to Roman. He stopped, turned to her, and shook his staff.
She crossed her arms. I couldn't see her face, but I read the body language well enough. I shake my magic stick at you!" "Let me tell you what you can do with your stick ... "
Ilona Andrews
#29. There is always pressure in this game and outside of it but as long as you control what you can control the pressure will be used to my advantage, like what the saying goes 'no pressure, no diamonds'.
Joanne Calderwood
#30. Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.
Beverly Lewis
#31. If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.
Marilyn Manson
#32. Don't worry too much if you don't pass exams, so long as you feel you have understood the subject. It's amazing what you can get by the ability to reason things out by conventional methods, getting down to the basics of what is happening.
Godfrey Hounsfield
#33. While you can't keep your heart from getting broken, you can stop breaking your own heart ... once you realize the difference between what you can control and what you can't, and that it's far, far more fun to lavish all that attention on your own self-worth.
Leigh Newman
#34. What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.
David Whyte
#35. God is not confined by what you can imagine.
Louie Giglio
#36. It's just life. You make what you can of it.
Karina Halle
#37. It's all about winning. Stats really don't matter, I mean, guys have great series and all that, and people take notice and take their place in history with those stats and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, it's all about winning and what you can do to help your team get to that point.
Stephen Curry
#38. Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get.
Neil Gaiman
#39. My loyalty lies with you, Princess," Tove smiled. "I trust you, and other Trylle will learn to trust you, once they see what you can do.
Amanda Hocking
#40. Stop worrying about what you don't know. Focus instead on what you already know even if they don't add up to much. Because you never know what you can achieve with what you already know until you take actions!
Mark Foo
#41. Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
Fay Weldon
#42. Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.
Lionel Shriver
#43. No one is going to give it to you. Spend everyday getting better and focus on that which you can control, let everything else fall into place. You can't stay focused on what you can get from success, but rather focus on becoming successful!
Rob Dyrdek
#44. 5 decades since JFK's inaugural address it is time now to ask, what your country can do for you & not what you can do for your country. You, my friend have done enough!
Anno Nomius
#45. I urge each of you to think seriously about the vision Dr. Daniel puts forth and think about what you can do to make it happen.
Henry R. Luce
#46. I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.
Yvette Nicole Brown
#47. You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.
Chris Howard
#48. I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
Sanford I. Weill
#49. Freedom is what you can do, Liberty is what they cannot do to you.
G.H. Thomas
#50. What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
Norton Juster
#51. No point in wishing for what you can't have. - Blair
What's the point in wishing for what you can and do? - Larken
Nora Roberts
#52. We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.
Trevor Noah
#53. Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.
Joe Abercrombie
#54. Never let a few people that don't get you, shape you, into their limited knowledge of what you can become.
Matthew Barnett
#55. The mirror can lie.
Doesn't show you what's inside.
And it, it can tell you you're full of life.
It's amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile.
Demi Lovato
#57. When I can afford it, I'm very into organic food and I love going to restaurants that use organic produce and such. I think that it's a shame for everyone that, unfortunately, organic can be pretty expensive, so you just do what you can.
Sprague Grayden
#58. Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The beauty of standup is there is room for everyone, and years of performing in front of crowds will dictate what you can or can't do.
Ted Alexandro
#59. From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
#60. I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.
Neil Gaiman
#61. Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles
#62. You have to trust your own instincts about what is appropriate and what is not appropriate and trust your own feelings about what you can and can't show for yourself, and it'll be different for everybody.
Stephen Daldry
#63. You are always attracted towards what you can't be or what you are not or what you will never be.
If you don't know who you are, just know who you aren't.
Simple Introspection.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#64. Don't stress over what you can not control. Always remember you can not control other people.
Me
#65. You are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.
Rosemary Rawlins
#66. I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
Brian Eno
#67. I never said I knew much. How was I supposed to learn anything living out here? I didn't know enough to do half the things I did in my life. Things happen. You do what you can about them and you see what happens next.
Marsha Norman
#68. Life is short. You have to do what you can while you have the chance. His
Susan Mallery
#69. It's not our job to make people like us if they don't want to. It's not our job to change people. That's beyond our control. But what you CAN control is how you respond to it.
Taylor Swift
#71. Accept what you can't change, and change what you can. It's easier than you think.
Jeannine Garsee
#72. Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.
Jon Gordon
#73. Give what you can, how you can, with your love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#74. When you bite off only what you can chew, you're going to disappoint people. Guess what? Not your problem. You're not doing anything wrong.
Kris Carr
#75. Embrace yourself and do what you can to look and feel your best. Don't put on so many fashion trends that create a ridiculous style statement. Pick and choose what feels good, and flatters your own body.
Camila Alves
#76. As an actor, you can't play big, huge things. But, what you can play is love for your father and caring for your daughter and being afraid, and having to dig deep and find out what you're made of. All of those things have been incredibly fun to play.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#77. It isn't what kind of house you have that matters. This is not happiness. It's what kind of mind you have, and how you care for your fellow man
what you can do to help others who can be helped by no one else.
Terry Goodkind
#78. This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.
George Bernard Shaw
#79. Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do.
John Updike
#80. The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.
Javier Bardem
#81. Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.
Brandi L. Bates
#82. The world is filled with good, but it's equally overwhelmed with bad. People who commit horror and evil. You have to concentrate on what you can do, what you can influence. The ones who you can hunt down.
Robert Bryndza
#83. I've always made weird sounds with my mouth. I've always been fascinated by the sound design, what you can do with your mouth. I was the kid dancing around in third grade on the basketball court. While everyone would be playing sports, I would be jumping around.
Charlie Puth
#84. Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.
Eric Weiner
#86. It's surprising what you can fail to achieve if you really put your mind to it.
Peter James West
#87. There is a limit to what you can do in politics.
Ronald Reagan
#88. You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
Miguel De Cervantes
#89. Dare to do something noble! Dare to make real impact! Dare to touch lives! You do not just keep your real value when you keep what you have or what you can do with what you have, but you also keep the real essence of your true value that can give a true value to others !
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#90. As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.
Jeremy Northam
#91. But I know you have courage, and I know you have will. The rest is just picking yourself up and ramming into the wall again and again until it falls down. You get a bloody forehead, so what? You can do it, I swear you can.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#92. The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish
Myles Munroe
#93. Staying healthy puts good numbers up. If you stay healthy and try to do the things that you can to win ballgames and do what you can for your team, that's all that matters.
Bryce Harper
#94. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
Barack Obama
#95. This love is reserved for nothing but adoration, intense attraction, for a different, singular type of devotion. This love I feel for you I feel because I love you just as you are and not for what you can give me. It's an unselfish love. And oh my God but I love you, Fin. So, so much.
Fisher Amelie
#96. I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
Robert Morgan
#97. When a new manager comes in, you need to show him what you can do, but that may mean waiting for your opportunity.
Charlie Adam
#99. What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
Adrian Lyne
#100. Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.
Kevin Kelly
