Do Your Own Quotes

#1. One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

Scott Adams

#2. Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

John Ruskin

#3. You just kind of go and do your own thing. Sometimes it's really hard to compare apples and oranges, so you don't really think of it that way. You just perform to your fullest potential and hope everybody else does too. And however it works out, it works out.

Jennifer Nettles

#4. I forgot how scary plays are. The audience is so much a part of the night - I know that a lot of it is trying to shut that out and just do your own thing.

Kathryn Erbe

#5. Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

Keke Palmer

#6. It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.

Sebastian Bach

#7. No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

Mother Teresa

#8. You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.

George R R Martin

#9. Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for

Oliver James

#10. Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.

Joel Edgerton

#11. I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.

Mike Vallely

#12. There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.

Zendaya

#13. The key is to do your own work.

Kyle Bass

#14. I think it's good to do your own thing and want to be different, and not look like everyone else.

Alice Dellal

#15. Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

Janis Joplin

#16. I think you can do your own thing as long as you're not hurting anybody else--that's been my philosophy ever since I was a little girl.

Bettie Page

#17. Pre-season isn't just about conditioning but also getting used to each other as a team and a group of men. You spend more time with these people than you do your own family. Pre-season is the time we get used to each other and work out how people work. It can be a lot of fun. Hard but fun.

Colin Kazim-Richards

#18. It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

Kaley Cuoco

#19. The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you anyway.

Thomas Lennon

#20. Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#21. Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.

Cecelia Ahern

#22. Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices they've been dumping on you all your life ... they're all down there. Up here it's a new start. You can be yourself and do your own thing ... and nobody can tell you different.

Ben Bova

#23. Learn to say No - and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

Robert A. Heinlein

#24. Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Dalton Trumbo

#25. It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.

Adrianne Palicki

#26. It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

Shaun White

#27. You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing ... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.

Sam Worthington

#28. You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

Terry Bradshaw

#29. It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies." You mention your friend's name before you do your own. I always feel like rebuking any woman who says, "ladies and gentlemen." It is a lack of good manners.

Susan B. Anthony

#30. Do your own thing with love and passion. You will be happy, no matter the result of your action.

Debasish Mridha

#31. When your partner feels s/he has a secure base to fall back on (and doesn't feel the need to work hard to get close), and when you don't feel the need to distance yourself, you'll both be better able to look outward and do your own thing.

Amir Levine

#32. You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Meryl Streep

#33. Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Brian Tracy

#34. You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

Gautama Buddha

#35. This business can be very frustrating but there is success story after success story of people who take the bull by the horns. Actors who are frustrated ... [should] do your own project. Find a writer, shoot a movie. It can be done,

Tony Shalhoub

#36. The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.

Dana Spiotta

#37. After you fail, which I have, you can either choose to crumble and retreat and become nonfunctional, which I've seen happen, or you can just become a lone wolf, forget about the cool kids and just continue to do your own thing.

Diablo Cody

#38. Part of liberation is being free to do your own thing and letting everyone else be free to do theirs.

Christa Dickson

#39. Either you participate in the community like an adult or you leave and do your own thing,

Havoc Pennington

#40. The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz ... you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.

Keith Jarrett

#41. If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

Vivienne Westwood

#42. They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too.

Robert Cormier

#43. Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.

Hubie Brown

#44. You do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them.

Neil Gaiman

#45. Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

Ray Bradbury

#46. I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

Salman Rushdie

#47. I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

Todd Phillips

#48. When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

Rico Love

#49. They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

Robert Cormier

#50. It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

Crispin Glover

#51. I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.

Sandra Bullock

#52. Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.

Kurt Cobain

#53. Learn to do your own thinking - don't let other people do it for you!

Joyce Meyer

#54. An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

Cate Blanchett

#55. Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.

Barry Sanders

#56. When you have a lot of goals to accomplish, it is very important you do your own "Kaizin". Shift those that are unnecessary now to the following day and carefully deal with a bigger task in smaller bits

Israelmore Ayivor

#57. The critical ingredient is a maverick mind. Focus on trading vehicles, strategies and time horizons that suit your personality. In a nutshell, it all comes down to: Do your own thing (independence); and do the right thing (discipline).

Gil Blake

#58. I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found out that you can look in your backyard, and you can do your own safari.

Isabella Rossellini

#59. The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

Kal Penn

#60. On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.

Bojana Novakovic

#61. If you are rigorous in your own R&D in whatever your area is, you do your own testing, and you really stress-test the thing that you do, I think that gives you a tremendous amount of inner fortitude when you come up against the monolith.

Brian Koppelman

#62. It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

Julian Schnabel

#63. Not an option. You burned your bridges. So keep walking. Do your own time ...

Neil Gaiman

#64. When they make the movie of your life
they're going to have to ask you
to do your own stunts
because nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody
could pull off the same shit as you
and still come out alright

Bill Callahan

#65. Do your own thing. Speak in your voice.

Dylan Moran

#66. You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

Ricky Gervais

#67. Through working with amazing people, the bar is always raised to do your own best work. I want to be a part of unique stories that are smart, heartfelt, funny and sad, and have a general sense of good quality.

Ari Graynor

#68. It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.

Stephen Mitchell

#69. Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to your. And stay.

Will Smith

#70. When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

Rosellen Brown

#71. Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

Ralph Charell

#72. How about it, Skywalker? Will you still fight for me after we've been married for twenty-odd years?"
"What do you mean by 'still'? You do your own fighting. If I forget that, I'm not likely to survive until our twentieth anniversary."
Mara & Luke

Elaine Cunningham

#73. Don't let anyone make you feel like you're not good enough, smart enough or cool enough. Do your own thing.

Benji Madden

#74. You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Abraham Lincoln

#75. You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

Ethan Embry

#76. I went to New York to be where the beautiful people were and it didn't disappoint me. It's so open. It's a great platform to do your own thing or start new things. When I got there, I started living for the first time.

Antony Hegarty

#77. Very few designers today design - it's very important to be able to do your own sketch on paper and then explain [your vision] to the fabric cutters. Instead, lots of designers drape - it's the new way.

Valentino Garavani

#78. The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.

Lou Holtz

#79. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

Donna Ball

#80. Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.

Brandon Boyd

#81. Misfortune simply is. And when you wall it off, you do not have a clear conscience, because perhaps you are supposed to dedicate all your efforts and all your attention to it. And all you can say in your own defense is 'I want to live.

Czeslaw Milosz

#82. I can't tell you what's in all of God's plans, but I do know part of them. He empowers you with reason and will. Those are your strengths. That's what gives you the chance to be great in his sight. He gave you a mind and codes to live by so you could be in charge of your own actions.

Dan Groat

#83. When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.

Dana Reeve

#84. Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.

Ezra Taft Benson

#85. All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

R.C. Sproul

#86. Do you stick with the position you've mastered? Or do you push yourself to master the position that seems out of reach? Do you listen to what everyone else thinks is best for you? Or do you listen to your own voice? Do you settle? Or do you dream?

Reggie Love

#87. Then, and only then, do they see me. But they do not always know what they have seen.
I see you as a code to be broken, or a puzzle to be cracked. Or a jig-saw puzzle, to be put together. I walk through your life, and I stand motionless at the edge of my own life.

Neil Gaiman

#88. Whatever it is that you do in your life, you're your own guide.

Mariel Hemingway

#89. You are to make your own way prosperous ... Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#90. Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

John C. Calhoun

#91. You just don't notice the time line of your own metamorphosis. Until you do.

Sloane Crosley

#92. Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#93. Independence has nothing to do with whether or not someone chooses to be single or to be married, to have children or to not have children. Independence by definition is about self-governing. About choosing for yourself. About making your own decisions. All

Krista Ritchie

#94. No one really believes in the future, do they? It's like believing in your own death. You can't do it.

Ann Brashares

#95. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

Joan Jett

#96. The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

Hillary Clinton

#97. Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.

Shams Tabrizi

#98. I learned very quickly that if you just go out and make something and maybe fail at it or you just learn how to edit it yourself. I edited my last films. You just do it yourself. You feel so creatively empowered and you're controlling your own destiny as artists.

Daryl Wein

#99. There's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

L.M. Montgomery

#100. I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life.

Maeve Binchy