Top 100 You Make It Quotes
#1. Good work last night, whiskey, too bad you can't make sleep as restful as you make it deep.
Imogen Binnie
#2. The first thing the Chinese ask you when they meet you is: 'How much money do you make?' It's a legitimate question to ask in China.
Rosemary Mahoney
#3. That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.
John Lithgow
#4. My own philosophy is life is not what you make it, but what you make of itl
James Lawless
#5. What could I do? What do you do to make up for failing everyone in your life? How do you make it right? How do you apologize for hideous things you never intended to happen?
Jim Butcher
#6. Geoff told me once that part of being gay is the journey to accept who you are. It's often not an easy journey, but once you make it, you're stronger and happier because of it.
Andrew Grey
#7. Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
Walter Darby Bannard
#8. Success doesn't happen by accident. You make it happen. But before you reach that road to victory, some things about yourself have to be changed.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#9. I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you're lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.
Amy Thomas
#10. It's simple until you make it complicated.
Jason Fried
#11. As you know, I'm androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn't put on. But you make it in guys' sizes, and suddenly they're wearing them. I think styles should get back to getting people to wear things that look so good that they don't care.
Steven Tyler
#12. It's not my fault that it's illegal to marry multiple men at the same time; that's like saying that a gay couple isn't as serious as a straight couple because the straight couple is married, at the same time you make it impossible for the gay couple to marry.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#13. You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.
Sue Monk Kidd
#14. When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
Samuel Johnson
#15. It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.
George Lucas
#16. It's all about the ripple effects of "wealth creation". What comes after you make it matters much more than before.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#17. Here's a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry, be happy
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy now
Bobby McFerrin
#18. As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks
#19. Becoming an entrepreneur is like walking through flames. You either ignore it, deal with it or be engulfed by it. You must realize when you make it, the burns will heal and you'll become a better person because of it.
James Jean-Pierre
#21. You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
Talib Kweli
#22. The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.
Carson Daly
#23. Life is too precious to worry about what could or will happen. Life is..what you make it
E'yen A. Gardner
#24. It's not the impression you make, it's the impression you leave.
-A Tennessee woman remembering her Old Southern grandmother
Maryln Schwartz
#25. Life truly becomes exactly what you make it. All the choices lead to the reality you are experiencing.
Steven Redhead
#26. When there's an end-of-the-world cult living next door to you, make it your business to find out what they're up to," he said. "That's, like, a basic life rule.
Stephanie Tromly
#27. Like I always say, it's not how many great plays you make; it's how few bad ones you make. I know fans, and even some losing coaches, are enamored with long pass completions or the great run plays, but that doesn't offset the interception or the fumble.
Jimmy Johnson
#28. I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.
Andrew Buchan
#29. At the end of the day, feminism is not about what choice you make, it's about having the ability to make a choice.
Jennifer Baumgardner
#30. With a horse, if you make it easy for him to do the right thing, that's what he will logically do, but it's not necessarily true with the human. You will see humans that will beat their heads against the wall rather than open the door and walk through it.
Buck Brannaman
#31. You just pick someone who has your back and wants the same things as you do, and then you make it work.
Claire Cook
#32. Life is not what you wish it to be, rather it's what you make it.
Steven Redhead
#33. You start slow. You find the subject's limits and get him to spend some time there. He gets used to it. Before long, the limits have moved. You never take him more than a centimeter beyond. You make it feel it's his choice.
Barry Eisler
#34. If you make it into an Olympic team, you're good; if you make it into an Olympic final, you're great; and if you win an Olympic medal you're a freak.
Raelene Boyle
#36. Sex is what you make it, and we have always made do. To assume sex must take place within touching distance seems, to me, limited thinking.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#37. The second you make it all about you, is the second you've already lost. It's about people - it always has been and it always will be.
Chris Hill
#39. Humans have been doin' awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity's not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that's that. We're about to go to war, Earl. There ain't no humanity in war.
Michael Monroe
#40. Everyday is a great day. The only way it is bad is if you make it bad.
Blair
#41. The easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.
Dave Winer
#42. I texted back: Did you make it home?
A few minutes passed while I stared at my phone. Yeah. Fam showering me with affection. U cld learn frm them.
I think you get enough attention.
I'm needy.
Boy, don't I know that.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#44. You gonna fight me, faggot?" Ty looked him up and down, then glanced at the men behind him. He shook his head. "Not until you make it a fair fight. Go get more friends. I'll wait.
Abigail Roux
#45. [On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.
Florence Prag Kahn
#46. It's not only how much money you make. It's what you do with it that determines your financial condition.
Sandra S. Simmons
#47. Life is what you make it ... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.
Charlize Theron
#48. You see, in every story, it's not about the ending. It's about the chapters in between and how you make it through them
Courtney Giardina
#49. The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.
Tyler Perry
#50. A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
Denzel Washington
#51. Just like human life. You want something so bad you make it hard to get.
Robert B. Parker
#52. Hell, we're all bullet bait sooner or later. Doubt it makes much difference. You make it to sixteen, you're a goddamn legend.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#53. Eighty percent of the things I do are not natural for my personality. I believe you have to fake it till you make it. Act like you're confident and you'll get there.
Marisa Miller
#54. But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!
George Carlin
#55. You have no chance at getting a rebound unless you make it.
Billy Packer
#56. Gender is like a Rubik's Cube with one hundred squares per side, and every time you twist it to take a look at another angle, you make it that much harder a puzzle to solve.
Sam Killermann
#57. I think being consistent is really important. In the arts there's a misconception that you sit around waiting for the muse to come, and that it's all really mystical and mysterious. In reality, sometimes you have to fake it till you make it.
Ayana Mathis
#58. Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say 'It all happened so fast.
J.A. Redmerski
#59. When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don't take things personally.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#61. Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.
William Battie
#63. You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine a more dangerous thing to have than hope like yours.
Lauren DeStefano
#64. Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#65. What is this thing? Did you make it?"
"I am a chemist, aren't I?" Laurence says.
"You own a meth-lab," Benjamin says. "That does not qualify you as a chemist.
Sam Hunter
#66. Don't try to push [fear] away,' he said. 'If you fight it, you make it stronger. You gotta great it politely, like an unwanted cousin. You can't make it leave you alone, but you can do what you have to do, in spite of it.
Lian Tanner
#67. A debut movie is something that you envision for many, many years. If you really want to make a movie, you constantly think about this first movie, so when you make it, you want to have everything in it.
Christoffer Boe
#68. There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.
Bill Gates
#69. Three things no one has ever said about me:
You make it look so easy.
You are very mysterious.
You need to take yourself more seriously.
Jenny Offill
#70. Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses some people angry.
Haruki Murakami
#71. Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
Betty Friedan
#72. When every asana is multi-petaled, why do you make it single petaled?
B.K.S. Iyengar
#73. I'm upset, Ellie! Because you won't talk to me! Because you always hurt me! You make it so hard to love you!
A Meredith Walters
#74. Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
Nas
#76. I thought of what Mom sometimes said to me when I was feeling insecure: Fake it till you make it.
Gayle Forman
#77. 'How long do you want me to stay in there so you can talk about me behind my back?' Zak called.
'A couple of hours. I could write a book about you,' Logan shot back.
'Make sure you make it clear my dick's bigger than yours.'
Barbara Elsborg
#78. To me, writing is the most fun. It's not always fun, but finally when you make it come out the way you want, it's then you can say, 'It's fun, boy.'
Elmore Leonard
#79. Just promise me, Mitch, whenever you decide to make the decision, you make it for you. And if you can't make the decision yourself, then you call me. Any time. Any place. I'll be there. No matter what. And we'll make it together. You think you can handle that?
River Savage
#80. You can't get it right, until you make it wrong.
Helen Van Wyk
#81. Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.
Linus Torvalds
#82. Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.
Joe Abercrombie
#83. Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.
Wayne Dyer
#84. In life you dream, you step out and you make it happen.
Euginia Herlihy
#85. After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.
J.L. Austin
#88. You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you ... make it sound fly to you.
Cee Lo Green
#89. When you set out to create a new product, you usually do not start by trying to think of something completely new. You think of a product or concept that is already 'normal' to the world and then try to make it better. You make it Super Normal.
Dave Morin
#90. It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the drain, but if you make it you hit the moon.
Jack Lemmon
#91. You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.
Les Brown
#92. I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.
Robert Duvall
#94. In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.
Bobby McFerrin
#95. There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
Diana Vreeland
#96. You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe.
Debra Anastasia
#97. As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
Jock Sturges
#98. [Life]It is what you make it. If you think you can't change the world, then go on and follow the path already carved out for you. But there are other roads to choose, they're just harder to trudge through. Changing the world is'nt easy, but I sure as hell am going to keep trying. Are you?
Simone Elkeles
#99. Life's only as bad as you make it out to be. It's go nothing to do with the way it is.
Nami Mun
#100. Fake it until you make it! When you're feeling bad, get dressed up - soon your inside will catch up with your outside
Denise Austin
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