Top 100 It Yourself Quotes
#1. the sign of a completely healthy mind is the ability to tell a truly sick joke or make a sick comment and laugh at it yourself.
L. Lee Watkins
#2. One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
Denis Waitley
#3. Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if they're not doing it right you've got to speak up and show them and if you still don't get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.
Jennifer Beals
#4. It is pretty hard to talk about responsibility unless you have exercised it yourself.
William J. Clinton
#5. Do not wait for someone to Motivate you; Consider it as a self service and do it yourself.
Mohith Agadi
#6. You can't do a good job unless you're keen on it yourself.
David Hawkins
#7. The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.
Phil Collins
#8. Watching people you love walk into danger is a hundred times harder than walking into it yourself.
Rysa Walker
#9. You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.
Markus Zusak
#10. Although one may direct the future or past through the onerous linkages of temporal cause and effect, riding the breaking waves of the present and never once overstepping it, the better way is to go there and do it yourself.
Mary-Jean Harris
#11. There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
Diana Vreeland
#12. If you don't believe it yourself your team darn sure won't.
Rex Ryan
#13. Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.
Phyllis Diller
#14. There is always some beauty in life. Look up ... and get on with it. Build you a rainbow. Do it yourself! If you can't do that, build your mind near one. Learn how to fly. Then ... soar a little.
J. California Cooper
#15. The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do ... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable.
Emma Thompson
#16. You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies. I can never make it easy by saying, 'Here are three things.' You have to derive it yourself to ingrain it in your head for the rest of your life.
Charlie Munger
#17. My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - don't depend on other people, do it yourself.
Kyrsten Sinema
#18. The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
Barry Eisler
#19. Have you not watched it yourself? Whenever you are total in something there is celebration.
Rajneesh
#20. I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.
Travis Tritt
#21. The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
Evelyn Waugh
#22. Life does not have a remote control; you need to get up and change it yourself.
Damien L. Malcolm
#23. If you can imagine someone surpassing you, you should do it yourself.
Paul Graham
#24. There is no opportunity for sale at the store. Find it yourself.
Mohammed Sekouty
#25. As a doctor, you have a sense of what it's like to be sick, but until you've gone through it yourself, you don't really know.
Paul Kalanithi
#26. I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself.
Rudy Giuliani
#27. Make their exits as gentle and loving as possible ... Tell them how good it will be, even if you don't believe it yourself. You're southern, you know how to do that.
Jill McCorkle
#28. If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.
William Blake
#29. My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.
Johnny Depp
#30. Never trust someone else to write your life story. Take the pen, and write it yourself.
Ellen J. Barrier
#31. We could be the biggest pantyhose seller in America, but we don't want to weaken the link in shoppers' minds between Home Depot and do-it-yourself projects.
Bernard Marcus
#32. the children make of it what they can. What they don't understand today, they might tomorrow. "The Declaration is like a map. You trust that it's right, but you only know by going out and testing it yourself.
Colson Whitehead
#33. But, the thing about guilt is, no one can take away for you; you have to unpack it yourself.
Andrea Randall
#34. Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.
Trevor Bayne
#35. Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself.
Edmund S. Lee
#36. Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education ... and there is no plan. If you want to save your children, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's just us.
Geoffrey Canada
#37. Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?
Anne Rice
#38. Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself
Rapsody
#40. Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied.
Sri Chinmoy
#41. You've got to realize that the world's a test,
You can only do your best and let Him do the rest.
You've got your life, and got your health,
So quit procrastinating and push it yourself.
Cee Lo Green
#42. I cut my hair myself and colour it. I know everybody in the hairdressing business despairs of me, but it's so much easier to do it yourself.
Joanna Lumley
#43. If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more thrilling than doing it yourself.
Kathleen Hanna
#44. It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
#45. I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
Oren Peli
#46. The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.
Simon Hoggart
#47. If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
Bob Edwards
#48. Punk ... was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.
David Byrne
#49. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself? I thought honesty made people strong.
Stephanie Perkins
#50. A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.
Abigail Van Buren
#51. The whole point of being a good friend is being in the darkness. I'll be your light, until you can be it yourself again.
Catherine Doyle
#52. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself ...
Donald Miller
#53. It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
Olivia Wilde
#54. Destiny doesn't do home visits ... you have to go for it yourself.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#55. Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing it.
Roald Dahl
#56. Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
Seamus Heaney
#57. IVY: Mom believes women don't grow more attractive with age. KAREN: Oh, I disagree, I - VIOLET: I didn't say they "don't grow more attractive," I said they get ugly. And it's not really a matter of opinion, Karen dear. You've only just started to prove it yourself.
Tracy Letts
#58. Don't ask me if life is worth living, live it yourself and find out.
James Hearst
#59. You can't always wait for someone else to do the right thing when you can do it yourself.
Mariana Zapata
#60. Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord, but sometimes it's hard not to get a jump on it yourself.
Robin Brande
#61. How can you ask me to keep a secret... when you can't keep it yourself?
Maya Berger
#62. I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks.
Sean Booth
#63. Hospitality is a wonderful and rare thing, but if you wanna get a lady's attention, you don't send one of your lackeys to ask her over, you do it yourself.
K'wan
#64. Well, child? Aren't you going to try to turn me into some kind of unspeakable creature?
I don't think I shall bother, madam, seeing as you are making such a good job of it yourself!
Terry Pratchett
#65. 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
#66. The good husbands understand and offer to help. "All you have to do is ask" they say. But even helpful husbands have to be thanked, their contributions acknowledged, credit given. All those pleases and thank yous. Being grateful takes time and energy. It's often easier to do it yourself.
Bettina Arndt
#67. When you sit with an enlightened teacher physically, the teacher moves in and out of different states of mind. That is how you learn to do it yourself.
Frederick Lenz
#68. That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
Adam Savage
#69. It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and f*ing figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed.
Gillian Flynn
#70. I paid him," Lawford said indignantly.
"If you want a job done properly," Sharpe said, "you do it yourself. Hell!
Bernard Cornwell
#71. It's no coincidence that the man who contributed the most to the study of human anatomy, the Belgian Andreas Vesalius, was an avid proponent of do-it-yourself, get-your-fussy-Renaissance-shirt-dirty anatomical dissection.
Mary Roach
#72. Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off
Augusten Burroughs
#73. Life has no remote ... get up and change it yourself!
Mark A. Cooper
#74. The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'
Michael Stipe
#76. Because when the thin gruel of do-it-yourself spirituality turns out to be isolating, lonely, and unable to endure crises, the spiritual-but-not-religious crowd might find itself surprisingly open to something entirely different.
James K.A. Smith
#77. I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.
James Salter
#78. If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself.
Andrew Saul
#79. My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.
Sylvester Stallone
#80. Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.
Wayne Dyer
#81. The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
#82. When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.
Ric Flair
#83. Your destiny will not carry you over the long and winding path of life. You must walk it yourself.
Ian Segal
#84. You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself.
Tina Yothers
#85. If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.
Ava DuVernay
#86. There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.
Domhnall Gleeson
#87. I'm always gonna be crazy about dishes in the sink. Crazy! Because it's a sign of disrespect. It says that you think someone else is going to clean up after you: that you're not prepared to do it yourself.
Lara Logan
#88. A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
Doug Larson
#89. Others can't give you inner-peace. Your children, spouse, priest or friends can't give it to you. You have to create it yourself.
Maddy Malhotra
#90. I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself.
Sara Quin
#91. The old saying 'if you want something done, then do it yourself' is as relevant now as it was then,
Anders Behring Breivik
#92. If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
Kate Baldwin
#93. Sure it will. But you have to believe it yourself, or no one else will. True beauty and style starts within, darling,
Jasinda Wilder
#94. As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
Marshall McLuhan
#95. Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.
Wheeler McMillen
#96. Study it yourself. If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told.
Robert A. Heinlein
#97. If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts.
John Ashbery
#98. I think when you are an aspiring writer, you must write every day. It's not as though anybody will call you up on the phone and say, "I understand you are a very promising, aspiring writer and I'm going to give you this assignment." You have to create it yourself or it's never going to happen.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#99. Not one word to stop me from doing something I shouldn't?
'No. By doing what you shouldn't, you will realize it yourself. As I said in the restaurant, the light in your soul is greater than the darkness. But for this you must go all the way to the end of the game.
Paulo Coelho
#100. It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill
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