Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
‐‐ Colin Powell
Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.
‐‐ Peter Thiel
Don't bottom fish.
‐‐ Peter Lynch
Don't break a leg, anyone. Do not break a leg. It's really boring.
‐‐ Tom Hopper
Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.
‐‐ Mickey Rooney
Don't bring your kids to my show, and I won't come to your house and cuss.
‐‐ Ron White
Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
‐‐ Jim Rohn
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
‐‐ Leo Buscaglia
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
‐‐ Philip Johnson
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
‐‐ David Ogilvy
Don't bury me with anyone old.
‐‐ Tiny Tim
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
‐‐ Joseph P. Kennedy
Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
‐‐ James Altucher
Don't buy preground coffee.
‐‐ Howard Schultz
Don't buy the bootlegs, save your stuff, everything's coming back out.
‐‐ Jerry Only
Don't buy this 'believe in yourself' rubbish. Why do they keep telling youngsters that? There's no point believing in yourself if you don't know what you're doing. Once you've got a vision of what you want to do, by all means stick to that passionately and doggedly. Believe in your ideas. It's not quite the same thing.
‐‐ Steve Winwood
Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!
‐‐ Jimmy Breslin
Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.
‐‐ Anthony Daniels
Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
‐‐ Dorothy Day
Don't call me famous, but it's hard to be out with my friends now.
‐‐ Katie Taylor
Don't call me, I'll call you... I'm out.
‐‐ Kevin O'Leary
Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.
‐‐ Bernie Taupin
Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
‐‐ Aaron Hill
Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
‐‐ Edith Piaf
Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
‐‐ Garth Brooks
Don't change for nobody.
‐‐ Lil' Romeo
Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
‐‐ Tupac Shakur
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
‐‐ John Osborne
Don't classify me, read me.
‐‐ Carlos Fuentes
Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.
‐‐ Henepola Gunaratana
Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
‐‐ Sonny Bono
Don't come home a failure.
‐‐ Ty Cobb
Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.
‐‐ Allan Sloan
Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.
‐‐ Sammy Sosa
Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that in college. Now, I'm having to learn to be patient and be where I am.
‐‐ Danielle Brooks
Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.
‐‐ Caroline Rhea
Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer
Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.
‐‐ Toby Keith
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
‐‐ Janis Joplin
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.
‐‐ Paul Harding
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
‐‐ Barbara Walters
Don't confuse facts with reality.
‐‐ Robert Ballard
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck
Don't confuse honours with achievement.
‐‐ Zadie Smith
Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
‐‐ Martin H. Fischer
Don't contour with blush - that's so eighties. It was an amazing trend then, but it's not hot now. Instead, go for a neutral contour color that's one or two shades deeper than your skin tone.
‐‐ Tyra Banks
Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock
Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.
‐‐ Terri Sewell
Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.
‐‐ Gwen Ifill