You Can Do Quotes

#1. Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.

Wallace D. Wattles

#2. The good and the bad. It always happens together, and all you can do is press on. Press on.

Marjorie M. Liu

#3. When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.

Austin Butler

#4. You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

Betty Ford

#5. You never know what you can do," he says, "until you get it done.

Judy Reene Singer

#6. The most frustrating part of working in TV and film is that you have to convince someone to let you make what you want; in comics you can do whatever you want and for 1% of the budget of TV and film.

Paul Scheer

#7. I think if you've never been pregnant, you can over play pregnant and you can do a lot of different things with pregnant.

Angelina Jolie

#8. Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stocky- whether they laughed at you at home (where they are often unkind) or at school (where they are mostly blind, anyway). Indeed-to hell with the lot of them if you 'feel' you can do it.

Percy Cerutty

#9. When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle,
you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

#10. The best you can do for anyone is to thrive fully and be willing to explain to anyone who asks how it is that you are thriving, and what it is that you've discovered - and then, just relax and trust that all truly is well.

Esther Hicks

#11. The words are the words. Seriously. Meaning you don't have boo-boo words. You can do boo-boo things. You can have sex, carnage, mayhem, whatever you're looking for. "The Evil Dead" movies, in my opinion, function better in an unrestricted world.

Bruce Campbell

#12. you need to make changes in yourself and your environment, don't dwell on your past. You can't change it. Don't worry about your future. You can't control it. Focus on the current moment and what you can do now. 6.

John C. Maxwell

#13. If you have to do it, you can do it.

James M. Cain

#14. Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there's the seduction part of course, sex is a big part of the vampire thing.

Jonny Lee Miller

#15. All powers are within you, you can do anything and everything.

Swami Vivekananda

#16. Do what you have to do when you have to do it, so that you can do what you want to do when you want to do it.

M.K.

#17. If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

Dorothy Parker

#18. Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.

William Bolcom

#19. You can never know who you really are or what you can do until you discover yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#20. There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.

William Bolcom

#21. If you don't feel comfortable with the Red Cross, anything that you feel comfortable sending money to
that you know is going to get to the hurricane victims
send money. Because that's what you can do to help. And a lot of prayers. Lots of prayers.

Tim McGraw

#22. You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year ... somewhere.

Charles Durning

#23. Don't put forth for tomorrow what you can do today.

Richmond Akhigbe

#24. That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

Margot Robbie

#25. My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.

Ted Allen

#26. If you want something as bad as you want to breathe, then you can do it.

Tyler Seguin

#27. You have the power to treat your own pain, and you can do it without surgery, drugs, or other invasive interventions.

Jed Diamond

#28. She learned the same lesson I had learned though - if someone is hell-bent on self-destruction, there isn't a lot you can do to change their mind.

Mia Sheridan

#29. In this business, it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place. The

Gerald M. Weinberg

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

Eric Thomas

#31. I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#32. The worst thing as an actor is when you're not getting opportunities to try and show what you can do; the best thing is when you get material that really lets you express something and that you're excited about.

Domhnall Gleeson

#33. A few years later, in the midst of a brief academic setback, she trained him to act as her emotional cheerleader. I'd call and hear him in the background, screaming, "We love you, Lisa!" and "You can do it!

David Sedaris

#34. If I ever get arrested," I said, "you will be my one phone call. Bail me out - that's what you can do." "If you ever get arrested," Sofia said, "I'll already be in jail as your accomplice.

Lisa Kleypas

#35. You can do anything if you accept the challenge, rise to the occasion, try harder, and drive it home!

Tyler Ward

#36. Don't wait for other people to tell you whether you can do something. You can do something whenever you want.

Nick Lang

#37. So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.

Thom S. Rainer

#38. Sometimes things happen for a reason, though they are not obvious at that moment, and there is nothing you can do to control them.

Preeti Shenoy

#39. People automatically associate quitting with failure, but sometimes that's exactly what you should do. If you already spent too much time on something that wasn't worth it, walk away. You can't get that time back. The worst thing you can do now is waste even more time.

Jason Fried

#40. You can do a movie and hope it may be great, but until you have seen it, you don't know. I loved 'Rampart.' I love that one called 'The Hi-Low Country' that Steven Frears shot.

Woody Harrelson

#41. There is no use getting angry at something that has already happened.All you can do is your best to check it doesn't happen again.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#42. You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

Mark Caine

#43. If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.

Linus Torvalds

#44. I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he's retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you're retired, people don't bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.

Bill Murray

#45. Sometimes the smartest thing you can do is realize you're not the smartest one in the room. 08-30-2011

Jan Thomas

#46. I really feel like becoming a director came from other women saying, 'Yeah, you can do this.' I wanted to direct 'Six Feet Under,' and no, they didn't let me.

Jill Soloway

#47. Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.

John Ruskin

#48. The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.

Donald Knuth

#49. I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.

Elias Koteas

#50. Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.

Michael Bloomberg

#51. I'm the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I'm going to swing at it. Otherwise, there's nothing else you can do.

David Ortiz

#52. The most important thing is to believe in yourself and know that you can do it.

Gabby Douglas

#53. Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do ... " speech, he would answer 'ask not.'

Peggy Noonan

#54. You can do anything for 15 minutes so make it count by doing something that will make a big difference in your life.

Suzanne Wescoe

#55. I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.

Karl Pilkington

#56. Don't let them question what you can do, make them question what you can't.

Devin Dygert

#57. I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.

Natalie Cole

#58. With your two feet and your two hands and the big fucking brain on your shoulders you can do anything.

John O'Callaghan

#59. Life seems to be busy for most people and if you know you are doing the best you can then there really is nothing more you can do then that.

Miranda Kerr

#60. What you can do is often a matter of what you will do.

Norton Juster

#61. But it's healthy - whatever you can do to keep you fresh and awake. Acting's such a ridiculous job and sometimes you need to look at it like that to get a sort of degree of freshness.

Eric Bana

#62. But there's still so much you can do with technology to improve the customer experience. And that's the sense in which I believe it's still Day One, and that it's early in the day. If anything, the rate of change is accelerating.

Jeff Bezos

#63. There is no reason not to be motivated. You cannot always be the best. But you can do your best.

Sebastian Vettel

#64. My personal view is, why don't you get out there and try to do something about the things that you don't like, create the jobs that we are lacking, rather than just yell and scream. But if you want to yell and scream, we'll make sure you can do it.

Michael Bloomberg

#65. If you wanna go somewhere, you can do; nothing is stopping you.

Louis Tomlinson

#66. If you tell me I can't do something, that's the worst thing to tell me. And that's what I tell girls, and what Beckham's about: you can do it, you can do it better, and you can do it in the way you want.

Gurinder Chadha

#67. 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

#68. I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.

Woody Allen

#69. When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

Tony Dungy

#70. That's really what it comes down to, in the end. Making choices. You can't predict life, but you can do your darndest to make it the best it can be.

Kaira Rouda

#71. I do think of myself as a bit of a loner, a bit of an independent. I'm one of those people who, when they're sick, like to curl up and remove myself. I don't like a lot of people around. There is nothing you can do to help.

Michael Douglas

#72. Sometimes you can't save everyone. Sometimes all you can do ... is kill a whole bunch of people.

Simon R. Green

#73. Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway.

Ryan Sheckler

#74. Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

Alan Cumming

#75. Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.

James Woods

#76. To have a mission is to find the thing that you are fond of doing, a thing that you can do better than others

Sunday Adelaja

#77. When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with the blues? Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today?

Ike Turner

#78. They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.

Charley Johnson

#79. I think some people see those three numbers 9/ 11 and they walk away. That might be changing now. People are more willing to step into an artistic exploration of that subject. All you can do is let it go

Andre Dubus

#80. It rains on the just and the unjust. Nothing you can do but turn your collar up.

M.R. Carey

#81. You never know just what you can do until you try.

Joseph Delaney

#82. Because sometimes, even when you see someone headed for a collision, all you can do is step out of the way and let it happen, hoping there will be something left to salvage after the wreckage is cleared.

Mandy Hale

#83. Putting your trust in someone is the most vulnerable thing you can do

Pam Godwin

#84. You know you can do more, but everyone expects you to quit.

Simone Elkeles

#85. You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them

Otto Von Bismarck

#86. You can't know now what the results will be in the future. So for now, don't even think about it. Think about what you want to do and what you can do. That's very different from 'running away'. What do you want to do?

CLAMP

#87. If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.

Tom Krause

#88. The only work really worth doing - the only work you can do convincingly - is the work that focuses on the things you care about. To not focus on those issues is to deny the constants in your life.

David Bayles

#89. Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.

Robert M. Pirsig

#90. If you can dream, you can do.

Paulo Coelho

#91. Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.

Richard Carlson

#92. You made something great. And something new will come around. Or not. Either way, do the work you love. And love yourself. That's all you can do in this world in order to be happy.

Felicia Day

#93. You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten.

Tyga

#94. Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

John Hodgman

#95. When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.

Johnny Depp

#96. I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

Mayim Bialik

#97. You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Samuel Butler

#98. There is always one more thing you can do to increase your odds of success.

Hal Moore

#99. In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.

Gregory David Roberts

#100. Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance ... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do ... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.

Fyodor Dostoevsky