Statement published in A Year of Beautiful Thoughts (1902) by Jeanie Ashley Bates Greenough, p. 172, Third statement for June 11. This has often been misattributed to Helen Keller in some published works since at least 1980, perhaps because she somewhere quoted it.
Variant:
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.
The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts (1909) by Edwin Osgood Grover, p. 28; also in Masterpieces of Religious Verse (1948) by James Dalton Morrison, p. 416, where it is titled "Lend a Hand"
“There's absolutely no one in the world that can tell you can't do something. You're the only person that can set that limitation.”
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“Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.”
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“Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.”
As quoted in "Broken Government: Where the right went wrong," CNN (2006-11-03).