Top 100 Do Yourself Quotes
#1. Don't look to me. Don't ask for help. Don't ask for anything that you can do yourself
Lemmy Kilmister
#2. In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I know and I can't tell you; (c) I don't know.
Dan Rather
#3. Theria snarled at him.
"Careful my dear, your teeth are showing, and I imagine that is frowned upon here too ... Why don't you do yourself a favor and go pluck something. It will really do you the world of good," said Abaddon.
Patti Roberts
#5. Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal.
Joyce Meyer
#6. Don't rely on leaders to do things you're equipped to do yourself.
Bill Johnson
#7. I'm not about to argue with a full professor, but if you ever have a really unbreakable case of insomnia, do yourself a favor and start reading Chapter Three of the uncut version.
William Goldman
#8. What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.
John Connolly
#9. Do yourself the ultimate favor ... Go out and make the rest of your life the best of your life.
Timothy Pina
#11. If it's your greatest dream, you wouldn't give up so easily.. So do yourself a favour, find it again & start focusing on anything that will help you materialise it, it's not going to be a walk in the park, but it will help you sleep at night; 10 years from now.
Nikki Rowe
#12. Do yourself what you wish others to do.
Ramakrishna
#13. Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.
Richard Bach
#14. Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything.
Michael Bierut
#15. Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'
Neil Peart
#16. Somebody", "somebody" is always what everyone's thinking. Acting like there's nothing you can do yourself is the easy approach. But there's always "somebody" who comes forward. Time went by in the world. I wanted to be that "somebody." I'm sure, right now that "somebody" is "you and me.
Strike Tanaka
#17. The American people have worn out their patience being told by their so-called bettors that you don't know how to live your lives the right way. We need to arrange things for you so you can do things better than you would do yourself.
Rush Limbaugh
#18. If ever you feel like you're on a treadmill and not progressing; if you feel like you just can't get ahead; it may be time to take a look at yourself. When you get tired of trying to do it YOUR way, do yourself a favor and try THE WAY: Christ Jesus.
Gene Thornton
#19. Swear off boys, Penelope. Do yourself a favor and stay away from evil, soul-sucking penises.
Mary Elizabeth
#20. When kindhearted people smile, demons shrink and turn away as if tormented by the gesture. But when those beautiful smiles are made to fade, every awful creature in the world stands surer. So do yourself and mankind a favor and smile BIG whether you feel like it or not.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#21. The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
Stephen Sondheim
#22. If I ever offer to plan your wedding or sweet sixteen or something, do yourself a favor and run away screaming.
Gwen Hayes
#23. The best way to learn is by doing; never ask others to do what you're not willing to do yourself.
Ellen Sauerbrey
#24. I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.
Booker T. Washington
#25. Do yourself a favor,' I said. "Forget it. Forget you ever saw me."
"Forget that you tried to kill me too?"
"Yeah. That, too."
"But who are you?"
"Percy-" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!"
"What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?"
I bolted for the exit.
Rick Riordan
#26. ...if Faith shows up in your dreams again tonight, do yourself a favor and dream on.
Victoria Caro
#27. Saw Torres play their first New York show tonight at Cake Shop. SO good. Do yourself a favor and check out her record. Her voice is KILLER.
Sharon Van Etten
#28. Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#29. Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.
Jonathan Maberry
#30. Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means
P.T. Barnum
#31. Do yourself a favor; don't wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.
Joel Osteen
#32. I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.
Christy Hall
#33. Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Glen Hirshberg has crafted a compelling, heartbreaking thriller full of character, grit, and sorrow. Bravo
Christopher Golden
#34. Life would be comfortable if only the people around you would be more interested in what they were doing with their own lives than in what you were doing with yours. How is it that all the people around you know more about the best way to lead your life than you do yourself?
Suresh Chandrasekaran
#35. Listen, do yourself a favor. If you ask someone about something such as, "How are the kids," make sure you really want to know.
Art Hochberg
#36. You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#37. No one could possibly judge you more cruelly than you do yourself.
Kate Steele
#38. 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
#39. Know that nothing anyone ever does to you can be as terrible as what you do yourself. Remember that.
David Clement-Davies
#40. What I would say to people right now is that you can't count on anything that you don't do yourself," Jim said. "If your hand don't put it there, and you don't provide for your own family yourself, by your own intelligence and by your own means, you can't count on anybody else to do it for you.
Dale Maharidge
#41. Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.
Joe Budden
#43. Sometimes it is not about the colour of your skin but the character you portray. Strive to be unique in your doings and only then you might have the right to blame it on racism. Consequently how you choose to react towards a racist experience should do yourself and your race a proud favour.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#44. It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#45. To speak only one language is to do yourself a great injustice.
Michel Templet
#46. Girls, do yourself a favor, don't ever bring us anywhere to pick anything out - ever, ever. You don't need us there.
Jim Breuer
#48. Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.
Karl A. Menninger
#49. You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.
Erica Jong
#50. You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.
Lucy Liu
#51. Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result is poor." Poirot stroked his own magnificent mustache tenderly. "It is an art," he murmured, "the growing of the mustache! I have sympathy for all who attempt it.
Agatha Christie
#52. If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.
Henry Cavill
#53. Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.
Billy Childish
#54. 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
#55. The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.
David Attenborough
#56. You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do you have love to give to others.
Toni Sorenson
#57. Trust yourself to be able to confront and work through your emotions. If you believe you can't do it, you won't do it and you'll become stuck. If you believe you can do it, you will.
Sam Owen
#58. Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at a competitive world, you say to yourself, "Hey, I do better overseas than I do here in America."
John F. Kerry
#59. You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.
Tama J. Kieves
#60. Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
Lord Chesterfield
#61. Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
Vincent Van Gogh
#62. If you wait till you're very sure, then you'll find yourself doing it, and when you do there'll be an ease.
Frederick Lenz
#63. If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.
Jack Welch
#64. Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
Richard L. Evans
#65. It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.
Alison Jackson
#66. That's what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, because in the end you have to live with yourself.
Mark Goldblatt
#67. We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.
Thomas Wolfe
#68. I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?
Kajol
#69. How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see before you resign yourself to calling it all "ruin"?
Veronica Roth
#70. 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
#71. To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you're going or backward at where you've been. When you do stop, there's a sense of going nowhere. There's a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#72. There's one thing I want you to do for me."
"Anything." He pleaded.
"When you're all alone, sitting in the silence behind bars, separated from your freedom. Ask yourself. Was it worth it?" She closed her eyes and pulled the trigger.
Michelle Umland
#73. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.
C.S. Lewis
#74. If your personality is negative, it means that you do not have the confidence in God and in yourself that is your birthright.
Norman W. Walker
#75. Do not trust anybody but yourself. If people want to help you, fine. Put it on paper and understand exactly what every word says.
Art Alexakis
#76. You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#77. Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you.
James Jones
#79. What the hell do you think you're doing going and getting yourself kidnapped? You almost gave me apoplexy!" "Well, excuse me Queen of the World. I'm so sorry I inconvenienced you!
Tamara Hoffa
#80. If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.
Flannery O'Connor
#81. I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.
David Cross
#82. And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would take some practice.
Lombard Philip Lombard
#83. When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean?
Rob Brezsny
#84. Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.
Rufus King
#85. 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
#86. Here I sit, sober and perhaps even lucid, on the sort of winter's day that makes you realize a New Year is just around the corner and you've got very little to show for it, but if you are going to get anything done on this planet, you better pick it up with both hands and DO IT YOURSELF.
Peter Laughner
#87. Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to push yourself to give, do, or perform when what your body, mind, soul and emotions need is to heal.
Melody Beattie
#88. It was amazing the things you could bring yourself to do when you felt insecure, when you were out to protect your heart. You could deny it what it wants most, just for the sake of saving your pride or dodging another bullet.
Rachael Wade
#89. Learn to love yourself for you cannot give to others what you do not possess.
Jeffrey Fry
#90. Maybe you should've let God do the planning, rather than doing it yourself.
C.B. Cook
#91. 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
#92. Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
Mark McCormack
#93. As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
Victoria Osteen
#94. Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.
Virat Kohli
#95. Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
Idries Shah
#97. All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.
Bill Kurtis
#98. Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?
Louis De Bernieres
#99. Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don't hide
your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.
That is how you change the world.
Vironika Tugaleva
#100. There are moments in life where you don't get a do-over, where the true nature of your character is revealed. You either step up to the plate or lose your chance forever. These moments shape a life. These moments earn you the right to say to yourself 'at least I got the important stuff right.
P. Dangelico
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