Quotes About You Can Make It

“We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hard
skew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to cut down across his stern and stick it right up his kilt. Clear? (Honor Harrington)”

— David Weber

“Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind
-Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit The Wind”

— Jerome Lawrence

“You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can do it.”

— Robert Karl Hanson

“If you understand 'it' will come, then you'll understand 'it' will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.”

— Ace Antonio Hall

“When you start writing, your incredulity at the childish, incompetent, graceless thing you've done is shattering. One of the advantages of having experience as a writer - and there aren't many, in face I can't think of any other - is that you know you can make the horrible thing better, then you can make it better again, then you can make it better again. And you may not be able to make it good, but at least it's not going to be what you're looking at now.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

“A sense of accomplishment Ahh yes. There's just (Nothing like it) Today, KNOW You can make it happen like no other. It's the Truth. Lean into the direction of your dreams today. Everything is brewing for you, all that you want is on the brink of complete overflow. Get out of your own way and Allow the overflow to happen.”

— Sereda Aleta Dailey

“You can make it right, just faith the future and work towards it”

— Oladosu Feyikogbon

“There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.”

— Ridley Pearson

“Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.”

— Susan Mallery

“You use the word "Infinity" very glibly ... Have you ever been there? Time and space are extensions of the mind, the will. Which means that infinity is a purely local phenomenon. You can turn over a stone and find it crawling there. Or you can make it yourself out of whatever materials are at hand.”

— Mike Carey

“If you write it down, you can make it happen.”

— Staness Jonekos

“Tess," I say. "I'm going to head down to the water.I'll be back in a minute."
"You sure you can make it by yourself?" she asks.
"I'll be fine." I smile. "If you see me floating unconscious out to sea,though-by all means,come and get me.”

— Marie Lu

“You have made me give up the hair Father gave me, the eyes Mother left me, the Color I was born to, so I will keep the name they granted me, and you can make it work.”

— Pierce Brown

“Killian kissed the tip of her nose and released her hands before hopping down to the tracks ...
"Are you coming?" Killian's teasing voice slipped into her mind and made her smile.
"Not yet," Sadie sang. She hopped onto the tracks and winked at Killian. "But you can make it up to me later.”

— Sara Humphreys

“You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small,' I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. 'Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.' I got all of these sayings at my tongue's end, used to go through the streets of Chicago muttering them to myself.”

— Sherwood Anderson

“If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.”

— Edwin Starr

“I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. I love making the dumplings. I think I just like to roll out dough.”

— Kay Robertson

“It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.”

— Karolyn Grimes

“No matter what happens, you can make it. Like a fist tightened as hard as possible, you can always apply more.”

— Ace Antonio Hall

“I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.”

— Gale Sayers

“Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.”

— Barack Obama

“There's lots of prejudice, but if you examine yourself, you can make It. Of course, this doesn't make me too popular with some quarters in the women s movement.”

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.”

— Jodi Picoult

“It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.”

— Hannah Kearney

“Felicity, felicity - how shall I say it? - is quaffed out of a golden cup in every latitude: the flavour is with you - with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.”

— Joseph Conrad

“I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.”

— Junior Seau

“Accepting things. That's what the talk was about. About how insane it is to try to pretend something isn't a certain way, or that you can make it another way, just because you don't like it.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.”

— John Katzman

“Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.”

— Deep Roy

“There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.”

— Gus Van Sant

“Every filmmaker's just going to keep trying to make it the best you can make it: make it as potent and interesting and entertaining and exciting and tough and sexy as you can.”

— Catherine Hardwicke

“If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.”

— Dave Eggers

“If it makes you feel any better, he's been all sad doll lately too."
"What are you talking about, Chels?"
Chelsea stopped walking and stared at Violet.
"Jay. I'm talking about Jay, Vi. I thought you might want to know that you're not the only one who's hurting. He's been moping around school, making it hard to even look at him. He's messed up ... bad." Just like the other night in Violet's bedroom, something close to ... sympathy crossed Chelsea's face.
Violet wasn't sure how to respond.
Fortunately sympathetic Chelsea didn't stick around for long. She seemed to get a grip on herself, and like a switch had been flipped, the awkward moment was over and her friend was back, Chelsea-style: "I swear, every time I see him, I'm halfway afraid he's gonna start crying like a girl or ask to borrow a tampon or something. Seriously, Violet, it's disgusting. Really. Only you can make it stop. Please make it stop.”

— Kimberly Derting

“So if you can make it through, you know you've got something good, you can handle anything. We've been blessed to grow but at the same time, the hard part is having to wear every single hat. It's exhausting, but it's entirely worth it because on the flip side, the best part about being a touring musician is being a touring musician.”

— Lizzo

“You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.”

— Mary Mattingly

“Even if you weren't born with a genetically perfect body, you can take something like a hand, where everyone has the same capabilities, and you can make it speak. You can make it speak in many different ways.”

— Sarah Lamb

“In football you can make it if you've got the 'I'm-going-to-get-up-off-the-ground-and-kick-your-ass' attitude.”

— Burt Reynolds

“If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true.”

— Tilda Swinton

“The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without words.”

— Charlie Musselwhite

“When you can make it this simple, though, just do the right thing. Even if you could get away with less. Even when other people are doing the wrong thing. Even though the wrong thing seems like no big deal.”

— Price Pritchett

“In my mind that's the best thing I can do for my girl, is to love my body and the way I look. That's what I sort of decided when she was young. And so it's sort of about faking it until you can make it.”

— Lauren Bowles

“A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.”

— Jaggi Vasudev

“My life is a testament to believing that if you want something you can make it happen.”

— Stevie Nicks

“More fundamentally, this kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise at the very heart of America: that this is the place where you can make it if you try. We tell people that in this country, even if you're born with nothing, hard work can get you into the middle class; and that your children will have the chance to do even better than you. That's why immigrants from around the world flocked to our shores.”

— Barack Obama

“Anybody who's made it will tell you, you can make it. Anyone who hasn't made it will tell you, you can't”

— John Mayer

“I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.”

— Joseph Campbell

“I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.”

— Pico Iyer

“If you believe within your soul, just hold on tight and don't let go! You can make it, make it happen”

— Mariah Carey

“You can't sit there and feel bad for yourself and say, "But, it's just not coming to me." That's an instinctual thing to do because that's the way the business normally works. But, when you've got a good brain on your shoulders, I think you can make it happen.”

— Katie Aselton