You Can Be Quotes

#1. Have you ever found yourself saying, "There ought to be a law against this," or, "Somebody should do something"? Well, here's the good news - you can be the one to do something. You can be the one to make the law.

Victoria Stoklasa MA

#2. Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

Jill Scott

#3. I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

Paul Auster

#4. Days are like trains, they will just zoom by. You can be zapped seeing them pass or you can jump on to one of them and enjoy the Journey.-RVM

R.v.m.

#5. Jesus became mortal to give you immortality; and today, through Him, you can be free.

David Jeremiah

#6. You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

Daley Thompson

#7. I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

Emma Stone

#8. Above all, film is a business ... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

Mel Gibson

#9. When God repeats a promise, you can be absolutely sure it isn't because he has a problem keeping it.

Anonymous

#10. You can be happy instantly by wanting what you already have.

Bob Schwartz

#11. She sighs, and then gives me this look. It's new and I don't like it. Sort of, Two roads diverged in a wood, mine is normal, but I hope you can be happy for me even though you are Miss Havisham.

Anna Breslaw

#12. You can be surrounded by people and still be lonely. You can be the most popular person in school, envied by every girl and wanted by every boy, and still feel completely worthless. The world can be laid at your feet and you can still not know what you want from it.

Hannah Harrington

#13. How to be the best that you can be

Meg Cabot

#14. People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Chuck Norris

#15. You can be! You can have! You can do whatever you want! But you're going to have to free yourself!

Eric Thomas

#16. You're never rich enough if you can be richer.

Jules Verne

#17. If you give yourself permission to feel the pain and the joy, without attaching to either, then you can be happy or sad with an underlying peace that just makes everything feel like it's going to be OK.

Richard Brancatisano

#18. All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts and keep submitting until you get an offer. Then you can be crazy, with a paycheck.

MaryJanice Davidson

#19. You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

Michelle Obama

#20. Any path you take, if you commit with passion, you can be successful. By going to business school, certain opportunities may open up to you sooner. But it's who you are and how you take advantage of your opportunities that matter.

Dan Rosensweig

#21. In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.

Christian Louboutin

#22. You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

George Woodcock

#23. I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.

Ian McKellen

#24. Humans don't exist on the same level as immortals. They can't even be hurt by our weapons. But you,Percy - you are part god,part human.You live in both worlds.You can be harmed by both,and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special.

Rick Riordan

#25. It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home.

Daphne Guinness

#26. We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

Richard Dreyfuss

#27. All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#28. I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.

William Kamkwamba

#29. You can be beautiful, kind and, also, strong. Strength can be shown in very many ways besides a sword or bow.

Ufuoma Apoki

#30. You can be such an asshole, Dresden, I swear.

Jim Butcher

#31. But you can be transformed. Not overnight, but over time. Life is not a race.

Scott Jurek

#32. Whatever a man thinks about sex, you can be sure that he thinks about sex almost constantly.

Joyce Brothers

#33. You can be at all fronts, wherever there is grief, in the power of the cross. Your compassionate love takes you everywhere, this love from the divine heart. Its precious blood is poured everywhere, soothing, healing, saving.

Edith Stein

#34. Changing your mind is okay. It shows wisdom and maturity. Never wavering from a belief no matter what is a mistake. What matters is trying to be as closely aligned with truth and reality as you can be at all times. And that requires many navigational adjustments over a lifetime.

Guy P. Harrison

#35. I'm a Republican, but I'm a Republican from the old school. I was taught that you get what you put into it. You can be anything you want to be if you work hard enough at it, and you can earn your place. That's the old way.

Joe Perry

#36. You become a man when you marry not just for love but to be a partner with your wife. To be the best man you can be with her, and when you fall short, to admit your shortcomings and to constantly strive to be a great man to your wife.

Carew Papritz

#37. It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

Corazon Aquino

#38. I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.

Steve Burns

#39. Awareness can be controlled by the world or you can be in control of it. You have the choice. Who is in control, that's the question to keep asking yourself.

Muni Natarajan

#40. When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding ... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

Anthony De Mello

#41. Before knowing the truth, if you depend on your intelligence, you can be misled completely. Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own ego. After Realization, the truth that comes to you is the real, pure truth and is not your ego.

Nirmala Srivastava

#42. I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

Francis Ford Coppola

#43. You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine
hope.

Shannon L. Alder

#44. I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you do. You gotta be open to other ideas.

Freddie Gibbs

#45. You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.

Martha Graham

#46. In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite

Flannery O'Connor

#47. The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.

Leo Babauta

#48. If you are passionate about something, that will enable you to be the best you can be.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#49. If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure 9 will go in the ditch and you have only one to battle with.

Calvin Coolidge

#50. There has always been a display of wealth and always will be, until the depression comes, which it always does. And let me tell you, a display is a good thing. It shows people that you can be successful. It can show you a way of life.

Donald Trump

#51. In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.

Sally Kirkland

#52. You can be quite sure that all who cease to understand their own people and lose their ties with them, immediately and to the same extent, also lose the faith of their fathers, and either become atheists or indifferent.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#53. Obstacles will always be there, but you can be triumphant over the shackles of the past and break through all obstacles.

Shane DeCreshio

#54. You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

Bill Bennett

#55. You will find inner ecstasy when you can be reckless in love.

Deepak Chopra

#56. I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.

Makoto Shinkai

#57. You can be anything in this life no matter what anyone says - all you have to do is believe, just believe in yourself.

Steve James Samsel

#58. You can be the most beautiful woman in the world and see yourself as hideous. You must love yourself. To look in the mirror and tell yourself that you're a rock star.

Demi Lovato

#59. You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

Karl Lagerfeld

#60. Of course, if you can pretend to be strong all your life, then you can be very comforting to those around you.

Kurt Vonnegut

#61. Sometimes, we forget to reflect back on all the great times we had by just ourselves. You can be your own best friend, you know.

Gwendolyn Heasley

#62. You can be all that you wish to be. Go for the challenge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#63. You can be too big for God to use, but you can never be too small for God to use.

Adrian Rogers

#64. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.

Brian Tracy

#65. You can be whatever you want to be. Don't let discouragement take you down.

Fawad Afzal Khan

#66. You can be critical and not judgmental. The two are synonyms, but no the same. The critical man analyzes people, things, and issues, very carefully. The judgmental man presents the results of his careful analysis in a manner that condemns.

Kingsley C. Okei

#67. At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.

Wyclef Jean

#68. You can be intensely aggravating ... " His expression struck me as closer to boredom than aggravation. "And somehow I suspect this isn't the first time you've been told that."
"Nope," I smiled mischievously. "Nor the last ...

M.A. George

#69. It's about being able to go through the grind, willing to get back up when you're knocked down. And when life's not going well, not getting down on yourself and just getting back up and getting back to work, and striving to be the best you can be.

Robbie Lawler

#70. I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again.

Mary J. Blige

#71. You really are a soul caged in a human body. The body decays but the soul is everlasting. Leave a legacy you can be proud of. Make a difference in this world now while you still can. Even after you have left your soul shall remain. You will still know.

Sohail Mahmood

#72. I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family.

Debbie Reynolds

#73. I trust that I raised a strong enough woman to know who's worthy of her and who isn't. If this guy is good enough for you, and he's the one who has you floating around on cloud nine and giving you back your spark, you can be damn sure he's good enough for me.

Cherrie Lynn

#74. When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.

Charlie Ergen

#75. I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.

Alber Elbaz

#76. If nothing else, Malus Darkblade, you can be counted on to react to adversity with as much violence as physically possible- Tzarkan

Dan Abnett

#77. Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.

Ba Jin

#78. I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.

Danica Patrick

#79. The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#80. Want what you have. Do what you can. Be who you are.

Forrest Church

#81. At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride.

Julianne Moore

#82. I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

Godfrey

#83. There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

Tori Amos

#84. Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

W. Clement Stone

#85. Mother: What more can we be?
Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's how he died.

Arthur Miller

#86. And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.

Ernest Gaines

#87. You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.

Roger Federer

#88. Why be difficult, when with only a little bit of effort, you can be impossible?

Georgia Cates

#89. You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.

Russell Simmons

#90. Why be normal when you can be paranormal!

Paul Goat Allen

#91. I believe you can be young and compete in gymnastics if you have a coach who is looking out for you and if there is a good gym environment where the coaches are taking care of you emotionally and physically.

Dominique Moceanu

#92. This is a sport (wrestling) that has turned many boys into men and many men into leaders. And it is a sport in which you can be a giant regardless of how big you are.

Carl Albert

#93. You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.

Stacie Orrico

#94. How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.

Joyce Carol Oates

#95. If you can find a passion at a young age, somewhere between fifteen and thirty, if you can find that passion, I can pretty much guarantee you that you can be sixty-five and still love that passion and still have a reason to dance out of bed and down the hall every morning.

Stevie Nicks

#96. When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Horace Mann

#97. Sweetie, when life presents challenges, you can be either a CHICKEN or a CHAMPION. The choice is YOURS!

Rachel Renee Russell

#98. I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

Kathleen Turner

#99. The second book was probably the result of the relationship I was in at the time. We were only going to be compatible for a minute, and I think we both knew it. It's like how you can be a different person on vacation, but you know all along you're just visiting that mindset.

Andrea Seigel

#100. I begin to call Morrie "Coach," the way I used to address my high school track coach. Morrie likes the nickname. "Coach," he says. "All right, I'll be your coach. And you can be my player. You can play all the lovely parts of life that I'm too old for now.

Mitch Albom