Can Do Quotes - Page 2

• Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do

  Cole Porter

  Passion, Blue, Singing

  Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

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• I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

  Holly Near

  Children, Selfish, Believe

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• Have a go. Anybody can do it.

  Alan Parker

  Positive Thinking, Thinking

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• What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Children, Teaching, Able

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• The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.44

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• The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Freedom, Inspire, Guru

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• You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

  Al Capone

  Gun, Power, Kind

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• Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

  Linus Torvalds

  Complaining, Live By

  "Linux: Linus on Choice". Post the Linux Kernel Mailing List, web.archive.org. September 24, 2003.

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• What I did, anybody can do.

  Weegee

  Photography, Photographer

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• Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

  Dwight L. Moody

  Giving, Religion, Salvation

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• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  Jack Abbott

  Long, Ghost, I Can

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Inspirational, Hurt, Suffering

  Joni Eareckson Tada, Steven Estes (1997). “When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty”, p.137, Harper Collins

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• The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

  James Lipton

  Genius, Definitions, Should

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• My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.

  Kathleen Turner

  Husband, Mind, Want

  "Why I'm moving to Europe" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2006.

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• We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

  Major Owens

  Technology, Cost, Students

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• And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

  Margaret Spellings

  Trust, Children, Reading

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• The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

  Raymond Williams

  Understanding, Crisis, Humans

  1958 Culture and Society, ch.3.

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• I did a show in New Jersey in the auditorium of a technical high school ... Technical high school, that's where dreams are narrowed down. We tell our children, "You can do anything you want." Their whole lives. "You can do anything!" But this place, we take kids - they're 15, they're young - and we tell them, "You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you."

  Louis C. K.

  Dream, Children, School

  "The Collected Wisdom of Louis C.K." by Bradford Evans, www.vulture.com. February 26, 2013.

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• I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

  Manute Bol

  Sea, Jail, Want

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• There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you can do anything to me, take everything away, put me in prison, but I will know [her] when we are old.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Joy, Aces, Prison

  1987 In the Skin of a Lion,'Remorse'.

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• Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Eagles, Bird

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• You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Love, Letting Go, Mean

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• So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem.

  Mike Mason

  Love, Spiritual, Religious

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• You'd be better served ifyou gave me a moment to regain my self-control and let me remove my boots. It's the least agentleman can do.""And you're such a gentleman.""Not with you, love. But I'm trying.

  Anne Stuart

  Love, Self, Gentleman

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• We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Montana, Taxes, Raising Taxes

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