Top 100 Quotes About Do It Yourself
#1. 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
#2. The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
Linus Torvalds
#3. Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.
Leah Busque
#4. When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
Robert Baden-Powell
#5. Women who have managed to get successful normally have had to carve out pretty much their own route for doing it, because there are few roadmaps for how, as a woman, you become successful. You think about having to do it yourself, you carve your own way. Does that relate to being Jewish?
Noreena Hertz
#6. But when nobody punishes you, you have to do it yourself, and there's no release date on that. We're always harder on ourselves than any governing body could ever get away with being.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#7. You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.
Neil Gaiman
#8. There are times where you can't do it yourself and the system takes over, or it's appropriate to do things differently. But I think driving your son and your wife away from hospital was really important to me.
Prince William
#9. You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself.
Tina Yothers
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill
#13. The old saying 'if you want something done, then do it yourself' is as relevant now as it was then,
Anders Behring Breivik
#14. Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.
Wheeler McMillen
#15. 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
#16. If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
Kate Baldwin
#17. My mother told me ... if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.
Lance Armstrong
#18. All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.
Thomas Lennon
#19. The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
William Greider
#20. My dad once told me: no matter what anyone says or writes, really, none of those people have to hit your four- foot putt.You have to go do it yourself.
Tiger Woods
#21. This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.
Robert M. Hutchins
#22. Enduring to the end is definitely not a do-it-yourself project.
L. Tom Perry
#23. As the editor-in-chief of the do-it-yourself magazine 'Make,' I've met scores of dedicated makers. They come from all walks of life - rich, poor, young, old, male, female, religious, atheist, liberal, conservative.
Mark Frauenfelder
#24. A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
Louis Kronenberger
#25. When you introduce something new to a country, you want to do it right. Generally, that means you have to do it yourself.
Willy Bogner Jr.
#26. The turning point, I think, was when I really realized that you can do it yourself. That you have to believe in you because sometimes that's the only person that does believe in your success but you.
Tim Blixseth
#27. There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.
Ben Hecht
#28. Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.
Lena Dunham
#29. A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.
Gloria Steinem
#30. You don't need a shooting star, you can do it yourself.
Jessica Watson
#31. I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'
David Byrne
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. I paid him," Lawford said indignantly.
"If you want a job done properly," Sharpe said, "you do it yourself. Hell!
Bernard Cornwell
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. You can't always wait for someone else to do the right thing when you can do it yourself.
Mariana Zapata
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
Bob Edwards
#48. 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
#49. 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
#51. Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself
Rapsody
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. If you can imagine someone surpassing you, you should do it yourself.
Paul Graham
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - don't depend on other people, do it yourself.
Kyrsten Sinema
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.
Phyllis Diller
#65. 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
#66. 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
#68. If you want something done, you sure as hell better do it yourself.
Rachel Van Dyken
#69. If you have to say something, you have to say it now. And now more importantly, you have to do it yourself. It's your life, you're the one who dies, you're the one who loses it.
Cecelia Ahern
#70. I have always enjoyed do-it-yourself projects, .. Being in a position to actually help design and bring tools to market is an incredible opportunity. Being able to fund charities as a result is phenomenal.
Tim Allen
#71. You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.
E.W. Howe
#73. Do-it-yourself morality, informed by personal passion rather than old-fogey morality, is the new norm.
Anonymous
#74. I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
#75. You know what they say. When you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself.
Jeaniene Frost
#76. Like many, you probably think Do-It-Yourself projects are difficult, dangerous, and expensive. You might watch TV shows that claim to make DIY easy, and you watch them throw
Gary Nealon
#78. If you want someone else to do a task, don't do it yourself.
Gretchen Rubin
#79. I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society
from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.
Margaret Thatcher
#80. If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.
Brian Tracy
#82. The Asterians didn't call themselves anything special, because when everyone else refers to you as the shining people, you really don't have to do it yourself.
Anne Ursu
#83. You can find a lot of reasonable buys at Wal-Mart. But one key to making it on a budget is by donating your time and labor to the project. Do-it-yourself projects will always help you save.
Nate Berkus
#84. When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.
William Collins
#85. The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."
Michael Stipe
#86. If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care.
Andrew Saul
#87. A greater sense of do-it-yourself (DIY) politics is exposed by the fact Cascadians are more likely to disagree that "voting is the only way people like me can have a say about how the government runs things" (54 percent disagree versus 37 percent, RoNA).
Douglas Todd
#89. Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.
Amy Poehler
#90. You're going to have to make your own fortune. You've been given a lot of challenge. No one is going to help you or save you. You're going to have to do it yourself.
Sunshine O'Donnell
#91. The healthy move to adulthood is toward interdependence, not complete "do-it-yourself" isolation.
Daniel J. Siegel
#92. There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yourself operation. But don't let that deter you.
Raymond Bonner
#93. Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project.
Billy Graham
#94. So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.
Sam Altman
#95. You don't expect the goat to hatch the hen's eggs. People do what they know very well. Don't expect someone who doesn't know what you know to do it for you. Do it yourself.
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. The "do-it-yourself" rage is spreading everywhere, and people are being told that to be happy all they have to do is think "happy thoughts." Such thoughts might cheer us, but they will never change us.
Billy Graham
#97. Letter from Mr. B:
Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?
Jerry Spinelli
#98. Wear a towel instead of a coat, it's very chic. Or your husband's boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It's all about do-it-yourself at the moment.
Vivienne Westwood
#99. Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.
Denis Waitley
#100. Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it, and you do it yourself, and you wait until the screenplay is ready, you don't have to worry about that.
Stephen Chbosky
