Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
— Alan Turing
Cheering Can Do quotations
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
You can't measure success if you have never failed.
My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.
The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done.
One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.
What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr.
During my term in AU, I will initiate an organised compensation claim for Africa and I will fight for a greater voice for Africa in the United Nations Security Council. If they (Western nations) do not want to live with us fairly, it is our planet and they can go to other planet.
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.
If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.
I gotta make a move, I gotta do this now, If they don't know your dreams, they can't shoot 'em down.
None of us, including me, ever do great things.
But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
Most of what we say and do is not essential.
If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you
You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten.