Can Do Quotes - Page 30

• What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Want, Enough

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.67, Bantam

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• Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Enemy, Harm, Thee

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• It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Next, Firsts

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1919, e-artnow

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• I'll never understand why people go to movie theaters to have conversations. Going to the movies to talk is like going to a restaurant to cook. The idea is that you have paid your money to have someone do something better than you can do it yourself.

  Rita Rudner

  Ideas, People, Restaurants

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

  Alice Walker

  Men, People, House

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.207, New Press, The

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• A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

  Aristotle

  Men, Beast, Harm

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Strong, Effort, Wish

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Love can do all but raise the Dead.

  Emily Dickinson

  Abet, Raises

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.826, Harvard University Press

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• Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least.

  Gloria Steinem

  Voting

  Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.124, Oneworld Publications

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• In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Home, Equality

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• It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Grief, Happens, Knows

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• No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Quality, World

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.166

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• There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Higher, Blessedness

  Thomas Carlyle (1833). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Zenfelsdröck in Three Books”, p.132

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• All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Book, School

  Thomas Carlyle (1852). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.255

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• Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Money, Wish, Back When

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.206, Lulu.com

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• The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men, Majesty

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• With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.

  Washington Irving

  Men, Evil, Individual

  Washington Irving (1859). “The works of Washington Irving”, p.402

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• The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

  May Sarton

  Compassion, Suffering, World

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.185, Open Road Media

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• I think one must do the thing -- whatever it is (and it changes from time to time) -- that unites you to the flowing stream of the world. At any price, one must do it first. Otherwise one can do nothing, nothing at all. One is out of touch, out of grace.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Thinking, Grace, World

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another's future.

  Max Lucado

  God, Courage, Honesty

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life”, p.111, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.

  Robert Southey

  Men, House, Physicians

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• The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Want, Worst

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• What we put into every moment is all we have. You can drug yourself to death or you can smoke yourself to death or eat yourself to death, or you can do everything right and be healthy and then get hit by a car. Life is so great, such a neat thing, and yet all during it we have to face death, which can make you nuts and depressed.

  Gilda Radner

  Nuts, Life And Death, Car

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.

  Mother Teresa

  Dog, Cheerful, Littles

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• Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

  Agatha Christie

  Courage, Brave, Certain

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Endless Night”, HarperCollins

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