Can Do Quotes - Page 11

• Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination can do anything that genius and advantage can do and many things that they cannot.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Don't be afraid, you can do it.

  Steve Jobs

  Fear, You Can Do It

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• Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Greatness, Mind

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• When we start focusing on things we can do and don't think so much about the things we can't do, things really start to happen

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Encouragement, Thinking, Happens

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• The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do.

  Marcus Garvey

  Power, Men, Done

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.9, Ravenio Books

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• She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her.

  Marcus Garvey

  Real, Women, Kind

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.9, Ravenio Books

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• They're saying now that Rick Santorum is gaining momentum because he's not Romney. And Mitt Romney was furious. He replied, 'Well, I can do that.

  David Letterman

  Momentum, Wells, Furious

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• We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.

  Rachel Carson

  Risk, Wish, Needs

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'

  Patsy Cline

  Couple, Fighting, Mind

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• It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  People, Forever, Secret

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1996). “Novels and Stories”

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• You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Bayonets

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• There is only one day that you and I have to live for, and that's today. There is nothing we can do about yesterday except repent, and there may be no tomorrow. The thing for us to do when we arise from our beds as God gives us a new day, is to take whatever comes to our hands, and do it to the best of our ability.

  Harold B. Lee

  Hands, Yesterday, Giving

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• If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.

  Charles Fort

  Light, Hymns, Special

  Charles Fort (2014). “Lo!”, p.48, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Eye

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• Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive cannot be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Attitude, People

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Faith, Strong, Religion

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Funny Things, Politician

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children's children and for all who come after you.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Men, Age

  Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.291, Cambria Press

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• You can do nothing that is in conflict with your own image of what you really are.

  James Van Fleet

  Conflict

  James K. Van Fleet (1987). “Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.85, Penguin

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• The worst thing I can do is nothing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Action, Worst, I Can

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• It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts to do it, it seems to me, result in greater damage than it can do itself. After all, it was not an invention of man, but of God.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• The mind, properly controlled, can do just about everything. You can think your way through adversity, you can think your way through problems. It is a superpowerful instrument which so few use to maximum. And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Attitude, Believe, Adversity

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “The Power of Positive Living”, p.106, Open Road Media

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• Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Writing, Successful, Light

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• Most enlightened people can do miracles. Some have powers, some don't. Some people who have developed powers aren't enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Miracle, Enlightenment

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• Enlightened teachers can do certain miracles, but they are not really miracles. They just know how to use energy on other levels of consciousness. A miracle is in the eye of the beholder, as is all of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Eye, Miracle

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