The Hypocrite Detected, Anatomized
“As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do”
“You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
Free Will
Variant: You can do what you decide to do—but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
God Only Knows (co-written with Tony Asher)
Pet Sounds (1966)
A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, Preface.
“Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do—then do it with all your strength.”
This saying is not found in any source before 2010, when it was posted by The Ignorant Fisherman at Free Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2451682/posts on 15 February. The language is not that of Washington or his time.
Misattributed, Spurious attributions
“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
Variant: Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Book III, ch. 23.
Discourses
al-Ghazali https://awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/35-inspirational-imam-al-ghazali-quotes-on-success/
