Dorothea Dix Quotes

My parents always used to tell us not to complain about things but do something about them, so 'Can't is not an option' was almost a way of life.

There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

I don't like people being negative, whining, or moaning. If you're in a situation you're not in control of, just change.

You need to have a can-do attitude. There is always a way.

I don't want to hear the word 'can't.'

Whenever you can take something positive and make something good out of it, that's what I'm all about.

I always question myself, but I always say, 'Come on, we can do something good.'

When they say you can't, show them you can.

My mindset, when it came to wrestling, was more the reasons why I could, not the reasons why I couldn't, which is how you should look at, like, everything in life.

'It can't be done' is not a phrase I recognize.

I'm a can-do girl.

We’re constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. [But] we should always feel like a hummingbird. I may feel insignificant, but I don’t want to be like the other animals watching the planet go down the drain. I’ll be a hummingbird, I’ll do the best I can.

There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can't be done ... and the ones who just do it.

In my case, I can sincerely say nothing is impossible.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

If I see something that's extremely challenging, I'm like, 'That seems really hard. Let's try it.' It's just my personality.

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that's a big part of what does make it work.

I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.