Can Do Something Quotes

• No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  George Lucas (2015). “ArtFolds: Yoda: Yoda and the Force”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Our Actions, Way, Responsible

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• I am only one,
  But still I am one.
  I cannot do everything,
  But still I can do something;
  And because I cannot do everything,
  I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Single

  "The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎" by Edwin Osgood Grover, (p. 28), 1909.

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• You can do something as simple as drinking two cups of water before a meal to fill your belly a bit so that you don't overeat, or change up your cheese from dairy to nondairy.

  Kathy Freston

  Drinking, Simple, Two

  "3 Reasons Your Diet Isn’t Working" by Kathy Freston, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2012.

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• I think as a human being, if you can do something to impact someone's life, that's about the greatest accomplishment you can have.

  John Seagall

  Thinking, Impact, Accomplishment

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• Television has its opportunities. It allows you more hours; there's more demand, and it keeps you working. If you can do something innovating and fresh, it can be very rewarding.

  Alfons Adetuyi

  Opportunity, Television, Demand

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do something tangible about it. You can read books, take a class, or talk to someone about it. But what can you do when you're already convinced it's true but don't experience it as real?

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Real, Book, Class

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• We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

  Jay Inslee

  Impact, Climate, Generations

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• Sometimes miracles happen. We have to be confident. We're convinced we can do something really exceptional.

  Fabio Capello

  Soccer, Miracle, Sometimes

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• Hillary [Clinton] can't stop [Forces of Nature], [Bernie] Sanders can't stop it, [Donald] Trump can't stop it. But you can do something that will cause God to give America a longer time to exist as a nation.

  Louis Farrakhan

  America, Giving, Causes

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Yoga, Reality

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.61, Rodale

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• You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspiring, Jobs, Home

  Shonda Rhimes’s Commencement Address at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.vulture.com. June 9, 2014.

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• Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Government, Proportion, Can Do

  "Broken Government: Where the right went wrong". CNN, November 03, 2006.

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• You can do something really radical, which is turn your phone off and reclaim your private life.

  Devra Davis

  Phones, Radical, Turns

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

  L. Neil Smith

  Gun, Muggers, Never Forget

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• Asteroids have hit the Earth millions of times. We can see them as shooting stars every night. When they get bigger, things get complicated. It is only a matter of time until a big one hits us. And since we can do something about it, we should.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Stars, Night, Shooting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Before you can do something, you must first be something.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Firsts

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• If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

  Josh Billings

  Motivational, Believe, Ability

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• No-one can do everything for the environment, but every-one can do something to make a better world.

  Arron Wood

  World, Environment, Can Do

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• The mind is everything. If you don’t believe you can do something then you can’t. If you believe that your upbringing was substandard and therefore you have to walk around as a refugee from that crisis situation for the rest of your life, forever bearing the burden of that experience then that will be YOUR life.

  Kai Greene

  Believe, Forever, Mind

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• You have a choice. You don’t have to be a person who spreads negativity and lies for a living. You can do something good. You can be good. Let’s just make that choice and — it feels better.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Lying, Feel Better, Choices

  "Both Huntress and Prey" by Sam Kashner, www.vanityfair.com. November 2014.

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• If you don't believe you can do something then you can't.

  Kai Greene

  Believe, Ifs, Believe You Can

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• I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.

  Audrey Tautou

  Strong, Character, Love Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

  Joe Hyams

  Practice, Effort, Conscious

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• You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.

  David Fincher

  People, Lines, Want

  "The Curious Case of David Fincher" by Brian Mockenhaupt, Esquire Magazine, March 2007.

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