Top 100 Do It For Quotes
#1. If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.
Henry W. Kendall
#2. Hello There
Do yourself a favour and ditch the excuses, ditch the begging mentality, ditch the self-pity mentality, ditch the bad attitude, ditch the spoon-mentality. Grab every opportunity with both hands because no one is going to do it for you.
Happy New Year 2017
Euginia Herlihy
#3. Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'
Tracey Ullman
#4. Coffee doesn't do it for me; it's running that gets me going.
Joan Benoit
#5. Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.
Josiah Royce
#6. No one else is going to do it for you, if you want it bad enough then go out and do it yourself.
Ed Sheeran
#7. A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens.
Al Roker
#8. This is the great adventure and the great discovery. No one can do it for us. Until we have reached the top of the mountain we cannot see in full glory the view that lies beyond; but glimpses of light illumine our path to the mountain.
Juan Mascaro
#9. I absolutely miss dancing. Don't want to do it for a living, I'm getting old, I can't move like I used to. If I had the opportunity to do something on Broadway or a musical, I would jump at the opportunity.
Michael K. Williams
#10. Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.
Mark Twain
#11. A few years ago, for my birthday, Sean Price Williams said, "I'll give you one free day of shooting." He shot Kati with an I and co-shot Fake It So Real. While we've always worked together, I didn't want him to do it for free, so he cashed in his birthday chip and came for this one day.
Robert Greene
#12. Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.
Mark Twain
#13. Every person, whether in wartime or not, should keep a pistol and rifle in his house at all times. If a person is not going to protect himself, and wishes the government to do it for him, how can he complain when the government decides to protect itself against him, and executes him?
William Powell
#14. Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, regardless if you are a man or a woman.
Michel Martin
#15. Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it.
David Carradine
#16. We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much.
Patrick Stump
#17. Ravelle, anyone in command feigns ease when death is near. We do it for those around us, and we do it for ourselves. We do it because the sole alternative is to die cringing.
Scott Lynch
#18. I see you've managed to inspire a truly frightening degree of loyalty in those you command," she observed. "I watched you do it for seven years," he replied. "Looks like I finally got the hang of it.
Kirsten Beyer
#19. At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!
Helen Hayes
#20. Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?
Ron Paul
#21. I'm not the first to want what I can't have, but my problem runs irreparably darker than that. My dark lust can't be sated by normal means, or even slightly less-than-normal means. Role playing and dominant games with their bullshit negotiations and imposed limits don't do it for me.
Skye Callahan
#22. The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population size, then nature will do it for us and it is the poor people of the world who will suffer most
David Attenborough
#23. Francis, I'd play the Godfather for you," he told the startled director. "I wouldn't do it for those guys at Paramount, but I'd do it for you.
James Kaplan
#24. We are now forced to actively pursue our struggles. If we do not go out of our way to stretch our comfort zones and grow, no one nor nature will do it for us.
Chris Matakas
#25. Place Yourself On the Scale You Desire.Don't Expect Others To Do It For You. It's An Individual Thing Called SELF-ESTEEM.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#26. Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett
#27. If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.
John P. Kotter
#28. It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.
Ad Reinhardt
#29. You can't create a myth on your own. People do it for you ...
Ville Valo
#30. If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.
David E. Kelley
#31. People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
Elbert Hubbard
#32. If I'm on my own, I'll speak to 'Monkey' to generate new stuff for the act. I mean, I don't do it for moral support, although I wouldn't say that's out of the question. In fact, I could do it, I might do it ... yes, I think I should actually start doing it more.
Nina Conti
#33. If I went back to Zimbabwe, I am not afraid of the police or the soldiers. I am afraid of those elements which are being used by the regime. People who have nothing, I mean, who don't care whether they are paid $50 to kill someone, they could just do it for.
Thomas Mapfumo
#34. Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.
John Wooden
#35. If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.
Groucho Marx
#36. You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?
Dick Gregory
#37. I need a Kleenex." She sniffs.
Guy disengages his hands from hers, takes the hem of his
sweatshirt, and wipes her nose with it.
"That's romantic," she says, embarrassed.
"Well, it is sort of, because I wouldn't do it for anybody else
in the world.
Julia Hoban
#38. I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.
Seth Green
#39. You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you.
You got to fight them for yourself.
I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.
Alice Walker
#40. I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.
Donnie Wahlberg
#41. I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.
Viola Davis
#42. If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.
Neal Boortz
#43. Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.
Ernest Hollings
#44. I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately.
Hasan M. Elahi
#45. I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason. He can write. He's the best writer on that page, and I'd usually rather read him than others on that page I'm more likely to agree with.
Michael Tomasky
#46. I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.
David Guetta
#47. Get a lawyer to look at your contract or beware. Because no company - evil or not - is going to do it for you.
Sarah Lacy
#48. Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men - at least he always did when he was a kid - because they pretend that's what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.
Russell Banks
#49. We try to live mindfully, being reverent in every aspect of our lives. We try to live like every minute is worship. Whether I'm spinning wool into yarn, or whether I'm selling cheese, the idea is to do it for God's glory rather than my own.
Rachel Bauer
#50. Forget impressing the girl, just do it for yourself!
John Badham
#51. We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.
Jochen Zeitz
#52. Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.
Marie Lu
#53. I love watching my brothers raise their kids and not have to do it for myself and have the responsibility.
Liam Hemsworth
#54. I do it for the love. Bunk bed flow, always one level above.
Drake
#55. If you don't feel like changing and don't have the motivation to do it for you then there's not a single diet or pill that will work.
Emma James
#56. I came here for the same reason doctors wear uniforms of long white coats ... They don't do it for their benefit, but for yours.
David Eagleman
#57. What I'm saying is that loving you - even if I'm not sure you love me - it's familiar territory," he said. "I've picked it right back up like riding a bike. And I can do it for a little while longer, if that's what you need.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#58. Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.
Kathleen Turner
#59. But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.
Gregory Harrison
#60. I'm paid to make an idiot out of myself. Why do you do it for free?
Henny Youngman
#61. Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
Jayne Anne Phillips
#62. It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.
Guy Lafleur
#63. Make wise choices with your life because the rest of the world certainly isn't going to do it for you.
Jessica Brody
#64. My brother is a doctor and he will take care of post-traumatic stress. I think he'll do it for free.
Wladimir Klitschko
#65. It is a mother's noble conceit to believe she has the power to take her child's suffering and do it for him.
Kadiatou Diallo
#66. If he knew one thing about life, it was this: look out for yourself. No one else would do it for you. If you were cheated or tricked, it was your own fault, and a lesson best learned before the world devoured you.
Kelley Armstrong
#67. The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
Luc De Clapiers
#68. Satan doesn't mind you using your strengths, so long as you do it for personal benefits.
Rick Warren
#69. On The New Normal the thing I was probably more proud of than anything else is that we were just trying to put positive energy out there in the world, and we got to do it for one season and that's more than most.
Justin Bartha
#70. I don't deceive myself. No, I get my clones to do it for me.
Jarod Kintz
#71. I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.
Kim Weston
#72. we are living in a sick society filled with people who would not directly steal from their neighbor but who are willing to demand that the government do it for them.
William L. Comer
#73. You have to keep your wealth afloat and no one will do it for you. It'll run through your fingers if you don't care.
Jessie Burton
#74. I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know ... they just didn't do it for me.
Laura Ramsey
#75. The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.
Mick Taylor
#77. If you are good at something never do it for free but if someone needs your help and deserve the help do it for free you will get respect..
Satim
#78. I love what I do. I don't do it for the money. I work on behalf of investors that I like and want to do well for. I'm a competitive person.
Bill Ackman
#79. I don't photograph for other people. I love an audience, mind you. Once I've got them there, then I love an audience. Not a big audience, though. I'd rather please ten people I respect than ten million I don't. But I don't play to an audience, I do it for myself.
Brett Weston
#80. When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings.
Ani DiFranco
#81. I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.
Joshua Prince-Ramus
#82. There are so many great stories and characters out there that you can just keep saying, "Yes," but you've got to eventually make the decision that if it's something you really want then do it for yourself.
Channing Tatum
#83. I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
Paddy Considine
#84. First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.
Alan Kulwicki
#85. Learn to do your own thinking - don't let other people do it for you!
Joyce Meyer
#86. Don't do it for the money. Follow the path to do what makes your heartbeat faster. Follow your passion.
Lynn Tilton
#87. If you don't love yourself, who is supposed to do it for you?
Rickson Gracie
#88. The decision to move to the second post-college city (or suburb, or town), however, is usually made independent of friends. No matter if you do it for love, career, family, or school, the second move is on your own terms.
Rachel Bertsche
#89. Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return.
Jim Butcher
#90. I want you to fucking pinky promise me you won't do it. No fan of mine will kill themselves. Don't do it, for me. I love you.
Alex Gaskarth
#91. When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.
Will Gluck
#92. There are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.
John D. MacDonald
#93. At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.
Sophie Calle
#94. A vision without a plan is fantasy. A plan without a vision is mediocrity. Believing 'God will do it for you' is magical thinking. Believing you can do it yourself is the ultimate arrogance. Plan your life as if you're doing the work
but live your life as if God is.
Derek Rydall
#95. Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.
Ray Dalio
#96. Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.
Courtney Love
#97. I've kept it inside this long. I can do it for a lot longer. Because I'm strong.
Sara Wolf
#98. A range of reasons to go with a range of individuals, my dear: some wish to restore lost glories, some wish to alter the status quo, some wish to bring harm to others. In my case I do it for the most personal of reasons - because I like it and because I can.
Andy Chambers
#99. I miss my kids, and they miss me. It's very difficult, but I have to do it for my country and fulfill my dreams coming to the 2012 London Olympics.
Mary Kom
#100. Running a label in 2013, you don't do it for any financial purpose, you do it for all the amazing creative aspects of what you can achieve.
Erol Alkan
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