Let Them Do Quotes

#1. Let them speak as lewdly as they list of me ... as long as they do not hit me, what am I the worse?

Thomas More

#2. Nobody will ever love you quite the way you want them to. You just have to let them do their best.

Axel

#3. For though to let loose the bridle to lusts, while our opinions are against such things, is bad; yet, to sin, and plead a toleration so to do, is worse. The one stumbles beholders accidentally, the other pleads them into the snare.

Bunyan, John

#4. It's nice to be able to let go of the reins sometimes and know that somebody you really trust is gonna pick them up as soon as you do.

Georgia Nott

#5. Those men want to take Laurence from me, and put him in prison, and execute him, and I will not let them, ever, and I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you, he added, fiercely, to Lord Barham.
- Temeraire

Naomi Novik

#6. When somebody's never heard you, that's the way to do it: Just give them music for free and let them decide for themselves if they like it or not.

Sam Hunt

#7. A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.

Robert Jordan

#8. Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.

Stacy London

#9. While farmers contribute to our survival, let us also do our part by showing them respect in form of not wasting food.

Mohith Agadi

#10. Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.

Pablo Picasso

#11. It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.

Tori Amos

#12. Don't let anyone tell you that Apartheid has nothing to do with South Africa now. Those roots run deep and tangled and we'll be tripping over them for many generations to come.

Lauren Beukes

#13. Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.

William Shatner

#14. Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.

Ray Bradbury

#15. Contrary to your unfounded and silly assumptions, I do not have a panty fetish and I do not sleep with them over my face at night. I do, however, have a new fetish for your pussy, and if you're interested in letting me sleep with that over my face at night, feel free to let me know.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#16. If people are offering help, it's because they want to and you have to let them do it. It just makes life so much easier. You just have to put your pride aside.

Jenna Morasca

#17. Keep Your servant from willful sins; do not let them rule over me. Then I will be innocent, and cleansed from blatant rebellion. Psalm 19:13

Beth Moore

#18. The worst thing you can do with fear and anxiety is to pretend you're too strong to have them. The best thing you can do is just to let Him be in charge of them. Because He's in charge anyway. And in Him, you're in His peace.

Matt Chandler

#19. We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them was impossible. Let's take the next impossible, do it with joy and get it finished with and create a world free from poverty. Let us create the world of our choice.

Muhammad Yunus

#20. It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?

Jamie Bell

#21. When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Barack Obama

#22. That's what comes of this celibacy business. We confess to men who've never had to worry about a family. Naturally, it's a huge sin to them, this abortion business. What do they know? They probably think it's fun and games. Let them try it.

Jerry Pinto

#23. Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#24. What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

Mickey Rourke

#25. Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

Amy Chua

#26. Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

Margaret Thatcher

#27. We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.

Ban Ki-moon

#28. Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

Stanley Crouch

#29. Nobody is out to sabotage an entire script and do an improvisational experiment of a movie, but when they're feeling something in the moment, let them make it their own. That's what makes them great actors.

Dan Fogelman

#30. Connecting with people in person is so important. To look in the eyes of our girls and let them know that you really do support them transcends the impersonal connection of technology.

Grace Gealey

#31. What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself. Be who you are, and eventually all will have to recognize who you are, whether they are willing to admit it or not.

Robin Hobb

#32. Do not let your emotions rule you," she would say. "Rule them. Emotions are a fuel for action, not the cause of them.

Kevin L. Nielsen

#33. If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

James Nachtwey

#34. We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply-any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea captains, if you will.

Margaret Fuller

#35. Do not let someone who loves you put you down. Owning a piece of your heart does not entitle them to a piece of your soul.

E.J. Divitt

#36. I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.

Larry Wall

#37. Don't waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don't let them.

Joyce Meyer

#38. You can't tell a kid that it's time to exercise; that's a turn-off ... you have to say 'Let's go to the park and have some fun.' Then you get them to do some running, play on the swings, practice on the balance beam, basically get a full workout disguised as play.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#39. Other people can't cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don't make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.

Lama Surya Das

#40. As far as starting or not starting, that means more to some players than others. And if it means more to someone else, I think you should let them start and just go out there and do your job when it's your turn.

Sue Wicks

#41. Let me tell you something: Never give up. God can soften the hardest heart. If you have been praying for a loved one for twenty years, do not stop! God will save people from sin; He will deliver them from bondage to drugs or alcohol. His love can melt a heart of stone - so, again, never give up!

Surprise Sithole

#42. Stein lifted his hand. "And do you know how many opportunities I let escape; how many dreams I had lost that had come in my way?" He shook his head regretfully. "It seems to me that some would have been very fine - if I had made them come true. Do you know how many? Perhaps I myself don't know.

Joseph Conrad

#43. The thing you see in survivors is that they express feelings - I won't say some of the things they tell their doctors, when doctors tell them they're going to die in six months. Boy, do they let the doctor know how they feel about that statement.

Bernie Siegel

#44. You do not want to piss off the subs. Seriously. They've unionized. We should never have let them start that book club.

Lexi Blake

#45. Honorable men refuse to wallow in the small and the bitter. Honorable men refuse to hate life because something once went wrong. Honorable men don't build monuments to their disappointments, nor do they let others brand them and curse them to their destruction. Honorable

Stephen Mansfield

#46. Let us, then, try what love will do, for if people once see we love them, we should soon find that they would not harm us ... force may subdue, but love gains; and they who forgive first, win the laurel.

William Penn

#47. Whenever another Latino tells me they're more Mexican than me I stop working and let them do the work for me.

Felipe Esparza

#48. You have to overcome negativity and make your dream reality. Even if your family & friends steer you in another directions, do what you want to do. They can't stop you unless you let them.

Greg Camp

#49. Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.

Vince Gilligan

#50. Whatever troubles may be before you, accept them bravely, remembering Whom you are trying to follow. Do not be afraid. Love one another, bear with one another, and let charity guide you all your life. God will reward you as only He can.

Mary MacKillop

#51. It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Tom Clancy

#52. The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.

Warren Spector

#53. Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.

Henry David Thoreau

#54. I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.

Katie Couric

#55. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do. I

Corrie Ten Boom

#56. Even if they say you are rebellious, criminal, bad, evil, let them think it. Even if they put you on the cross let them do it, but you remain true to yourself.

Osho

#57. I don't have too many bad days because I just don't let them happen. When I'm having one of those days, I'll just be like. 'I'm not going to let this be a bad day,' and I'll do everything I can to turn it around.

Matt Dallas

#58. The most compassionate thing I can do for them is continuing to see their potential. They need to know that people are not going to abandon them because of their bad behavior. Only in the security of this can they let themselves learn better strategies.

Thomm Quackenbush

#59. I'm much more collaborative than I probably was when I was first starting, much more willing to say, "I don't know the answer to that." I have really talented people and let them do their jobs and not try to control everything as much as I did when I was starting. I was a bit more insecure.

Peter Berg

#60. There are gators, thousands of them. " said Rashawn.
" Then we better get out of here before we end up as a feast for gators." said Nicole. " What are going to do with him?" looking at the dead driver. " Let's get out of here and let him be the feast

Roland Smith

#61. Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

Randy Pausch

#62. Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to choose their own books and become readers, they may never read at all. To keep our students reading, we have to let them.

Donalyn Miller

#63. He said, "How can the inconsequence of your life not shame you?"
He said, "How do you not feel empty?"
I do, she thought as she pushed through the library doors and let them thud behind her. I do.

Marie Rutkoski

#64. Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

Leon Spinks

#65. Oh, dear friend, if you love your children, I charge you, do not let the early impression of a habit of prayer slip by. If you train your children to do anything, train them, at least, to have a habit of prayer.

J.C. Ryle

#66. Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.

Andrei Codrescu

#67. Do good work and let that speak for itself. Don't waste time arguing with someone. Instead, show them in your work. That's easier said than done, but it really is the best solution. No one can argue with good work.

Megan Alexander

#68. If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.

Jimmy Buffett

#69. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Marilyn Monroe

#70. The art of new, and perhaps the art of happiness, is not absolute victory for either new or old but balance between them. Birds do not defy gravity or let it bind them to the ground. They use it to fly.

Kevin Ashton

#71. The Talmud says that "blessed is He who has created all these to serve me." German politician Julius Streicher said, "It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.

H.W. Charles

#72. The reviewer's view knew not of the true part of the writer's view, so good or bad, do not brew, and let them through to another part of you.

Mark Donnelly

#73. Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.

Guy Fieri

#74. I tend to not have to handle things that are probably gonna end up being irrelevant, that aren't gonna have much to do with the film. I have probably a better understanding of really what does matter, when to pick my battles and when to kind of let them go.

Peter Berg

#75. 30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.

Jack Ma

#76. I got both hands on her throat and there was nothing inside me but the black madness of that desire to kill her, to close my hands until she turned purple and lay still and there'd be an end to her forever. Let them send me to the chair. Let 'em burn me. All they could do was kill me.

Charles Williams

#77. Do not let fear and anger conquer you. You must conquer them. If you don't, you give your enemy all power over you, and you will never overcome him. Anger uncontrolled flames up fast and hot, and even though you direct this fire at your foe, it is you it burns. Hamiel

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#78. Taxes," said rich dad. "You're taxed when you earn. You're taxed when you spend. You're taxed when you save. You're taxed when you die." "Why do people let the government do that to them?" "The rich don't," said rich dad with a smile. "The poor and the middle class do.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#79. Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea.

Brigham Young

#80. Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

Randy Wayne White

#81. So, that's the secret to happiness? Don't tak life seriously?" I ask.
"No," she says. "Take life seriously. That you have to do. Don't take yourself seriously, that's the key. Let it all go. Don't care for a second what people think of you. In fact, go out of your way to keep them guessing.

Katie Kacvinsky

#82. Good things come to those who let them in. All you have to do is take a chance.

Emily Murdoch

#83. If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

Henry David Thoreau

#84. The best revenge against bullies is absolutely, resolutely, never to let them change who you are. Know that whatever bullies say or do - it comes from their weakness, not yours.

Tom Hiddleston

#85. No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.'
-Rand

Robert Jordan

#86. Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end

Samuel Johnson

#87. Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#88. The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?

Michael Winter

#89. I just can't stand the fact that they're going out on their own - I love having my kids around, and I'm angry at them for going out and becoming independent. I want to tuck them in and drive them to school in the morning, but they just won't let me do that anymore.

Tim Daly

#90. Let's show them all how it's done, let's do it all imperfectly.

Ani DiFranco

#91. The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.

John Steinbeck

#92. By failing to let others be themselves before God and move at their own pace, we inevitably project onto them our own discomfort with their choice to live life differently than we do.

Peter Scazzero

#93. Jesus called the children to Him and said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." LUKE 18:16

Anne Graham Lotz

#94. Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

Eddie Vedder

#95. Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams & from your darker journey. Let them keep you here.

Anne Rice

#96. I've had a lot of experience auditioning people, and I can do it rather quickly even though sometimes I let them linger and give them time, but I kind of know after I see them do a couple of steps. I know.

Debbie Allen

#97. I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life.

Jason Robert Brown

#98. But don't let them talk you into anything you don't feel comfortable with."
"They're my friends."
"So what?" He shrugged. "If your friends walked off a cliff, would you do it too?"
"Why would they walk off a cliff?" I asked in alarm. "Is someone having problems at home?

Alexandra Adornetto

#99. I've always been lucky in casting. The trick in casting is to hire great people, and let them do what they do, don't interfere with them too much. And then when they're great, take credit for it in the end.

Woody Allen

#100. Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

Plato