Quotes about can
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— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001221/122102Eo.pdf Page53-56
Education for All People and Education for Life
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Education for All People and Education for Life

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, book The Little Prince
Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Variant translations: Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.
The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.
Le Petit Prince (1943)


„Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.“
— Alan Turing British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist 1912 - 1954
Variant: Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

„You can achieve anything in life. It just depends on how desperate you are to achieve it.“
— Milkha Singh Indian track and field athlete 1935
The Race of My Life: An Autobiography Milkha Singh (2013)

„There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.“
— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001

— Tupac Shakur, book The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Variant: Only God can judge me.
Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete

— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981
Variant: You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect — you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break — her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.

— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941

— Niall Horan Irish singer and songwriter 1993
Dare to Dream by One Direction, https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6422638.Niall_Horan

„Anyone from anywhere can do anything.“
— Tyler Joseph American singer-songwriter and record producer 1988

— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
Also attributed to Chester Bennington (singer of Linkin Park)


„I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying“
— Rowan Atkinson English actor, comedian, and screenwriter 1955


— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
'Where Do We Go From Here?" as published in Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community? (1967), p. 62; many statements in this book, or slight variants of them, were also part of his address Where Do We Go From Here?" which has a section below. A common variant appearing at least as early as 1968 has "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence..." An early version of the speech as published in A Martin Luther King Treasury (1964), p. 173, has : "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate..."
1960s
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Context: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. … Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
On listening to an early version of Billie Jean on an iPhone
Ebony interview (2007)

„During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams“
— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

„One man with a gun can control 100 without one.“
— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924
Not found in Lenin's Collected Works. Began to surface on the internet in the mid-1990s.
Misattributed
Variant: One man with a gun can control a hundred without one.

— Adolf Hitler, book Mein Kampf
Variant: And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
Source: Mein Kampf

„If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.“
— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996
Variant: For every dark night, there's a brighter day.

„You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left.“
— Tupac Shakur, book The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete

— Jane Goodall British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist 1934
Reported in Janelle Rohr, Animal rights: opposing viewpoints (1989), p. 100; Jane Goodall and Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe (1999), p. 6. Occasionally misreported in truncated form, as "The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves", in, e.g., quote honored on XOEarth eco money http://xoearth.org/jane-goodall/

„Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.“
— Arthur Ashe American tennis player 1943 - 1993

— Harry Styles English singer, songwriter, and actor 1994
Interview by Cameron Crowe in Rolling Stone (18 April 2017) http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/harry-styles-opens-up-about-famous-flings-honest-new-lp-w476928
Context: Who's to say that young girls who like pop music – short for popular, right? – have worse musical taste than a 30-year-old hipster guy? That's not up to you to say. Music is something that's always changing. There's no goal posts. Young girls like the Beatles. You gonna tell me they're not serious? How can you say young girls don't get it? They're our future. Our future doctors, lawyers, mothers, presidents, they kind of keep the world going. Teenage-girl fans – they don't lie. If they like you, they're there. They don't act 'too cool.' They like you, and they tell you. Which is sick.

„You can close your eyes if you want. Some things are less scary.“
— Tyler Joseph American singer-songwriter and record producer 1988

„Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.“
— T.S. Eliot 20th century English author 1888 - 1965
Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)

„That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.“
— H.P. Lovecraft, book The Nameless City
Variant: That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
Source: The Nameless City

— Carl R. Rogers American psychologist 1902 - 1987
Source: "Freedom to learn" (1969), p.236.
Source: A Way of Being

„Believe you can and you're halfway there.“
— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919

— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996
Variant: You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the f**k on.

„I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.“
— Pablo Neruda Chilean poet 1904 - 1973

— Shams-i Tabrizi 1185-1248, spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi. 1185 - 1248

— Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962
Other

— Ted Bundy American serial killer 1946 - 1989
1977 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEWsxCrMM1U in Pitkin County Prison, Colorado

— Harry Styles English singer, songwriter, and actor 1994
Interview with Polish website Plejada (25 November 2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNqJC-ZSseU&t=552

„A TV evening with the right person can be more erotic than sex with the wrong one. “
— Ville Valo Finnish rock musician 1976

— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works 1892 - 1973

— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

„In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.“
— Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 261
General sources
Variant: In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

— Richard Bach American spiritual writer 1936
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

„Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay“
— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924


„If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.“
— Oprah Winfrey American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist 1954

„Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.“
— Werner Heisenberg German theoretical physicist 1901 - 1976
Source: Across the Frontiers


„The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.“
— Carl R. Rogers American psychologist 1902 - 1987
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943
Quoted in Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication (2008) by Tim O'Shei, ISBN 159845076X , p. 5

— Hildegard of Bingen Medieval saint, prophetise, mystic and Doctor of Church 1098 - 1179
Letter to the Monk Guibert, 1176

— Zayn Malik British singer 1993
Let Me for his partner on young people not knowing what to come in the future if it is too faraway into the future
Song lyrics

— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991
As quoted in "Rock On Freddie" (1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_XX-XX-1985_-_Unknown.
— Nigel Cumberland British author and leadership coach 1967
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Managing Teams in a Week (2013) https://books.google.ae/books?idqZjO9_ov74EC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIIDAB#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Secrets of Success at Work – 50 techniques to excel (2014) https://books.google.ae/books?id4S7vAgAAQBAJ&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIJjAC#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, p.107

— Ariana Grande American singer-songwriter 1993
Twitter statement on the Manchester terrorist attack https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/868164986887176192 (26 May 2017)

— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991
As quoted in "Rock On Freddie" (1985).

— Dmitri Shostakovich Russian composer and pianist 1906 - 1975
From an article in Sovetskoye Iskusstvo, November 5, 1934; translation from Laurel Fay Shostakovich: A Life (2000) p. 77.

— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991
On his relationship with Mary Austin, as quoted in "Rock On Freddie" (1985).
Context: Our love affair ended in tears but a deep bond grew out of it, and that's something nobody can take away from us. It's unreachable … All my lovers ask me why they can't replace her, but it's simply impossible.
I don't feel jealous of her lovers because. of course, she has a life to lead, and so do I. Basically, I try to make sure she's happy with whoever she's with and she tries to do the same for me.
We look after each other and that's a wonderful form of love. I might have all the problems in the world, but I have Mary and that gets me through.

— Megan Marie Hart American opera singer 1983
on Marilyn Horne's influence; 2005, as quoted by Zachary Lewis https://solokeyboard.typepad.com/Music2005Final.doc and edited into the Oberlin Review article The Marilyn Horne Experience http://www2.oberlin.edu/con/connews/2006/of_note.html#3
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
citizenship in the changing world of tomorrow.

— Yuzuru Hanyu Japanese figure skater (1994-) 1994
Annotation: It's unclear, whether this quote is from Hanyu himself or based on a commercial script, but it's commonly attributed to him.
Original: (ja) できなかったら、できるまでやる。できるようになったら、完璧にできるまでやる。完璧にできるようになったら、何度でも、完璧にできるまでやる。
Source: Attributed, Lines from a TV commercial for 味の素 アミノバイタル (AJINOMOTO amino VITAL), released on 1 October 2014, as quoted in フィギュアスケート14-15シーズン序盤号, published on 15 November 2014 by 日刊スポーツ新聞社 (Nikkan Sports News).

— Jesse Owens American track and field athlete 1913 - 1980
On the congratulations given by German athlete Lutz Long, a competitor in the long jump, who in some accounts he credited with giving him some friendly advice that helped him to win against him; as quoted in "Owens pierced a myth" by Larry Schwartz http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016393.html in ESPN SportsCentury (2005)
Context: It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler... You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-karat friendship I felt for Lutz Long at that moment. Hitler must have gone crazy watching us embrace. The sad part of the story is I never saw Long again. He was killed in World War II.

„Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.“
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
Variant: Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Context: But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

„You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.“
— John Bunyan English Christian writer and preacher 1628 - 1688

„Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.“
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955

— Marie Curie French-Polish physicist and chemist 1867 - 1934
Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 168

— Christopher Marlowe English dramatist, poet and translator 1564 - 1593
Source: Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1

— Sadhguru, book Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
Source: Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
Variant: Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You do not have to have a college degree to serve. You do not have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

— Louis Sachar, book Holes
Variant: Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.
Source: Holes