Quotes About Self-reliance

Your enthrally voice doesn't work on me, and overbearing men trying to tell me what to do is not a new tune in my particular symphony.

La libertad no se cuantificaba en metros cuadrados disponibles. La libertad consistía en estar por fin a merced de nosotros mismos

Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be saved by anyone.

I had trained myself to show no weakness.

When you go looking for rescue, you end up trapped in your own weakness.

I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn't need an inheritance - the person who would create his own fortune no matter what his start in life - and have come to view inherited wealth as an affliction.

All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor.

There's a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you've earned.

My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest levels of wealth creation.

I never felt hard done by and never wanted for anything, but I grew up in a wealthy area where I saw people being handed things on a plate. So it made me want to earn some money and be able to buy things for myself.

Ukraine is an industrialized nation that can produce their own weapons. We're talking about the defensive weapons, which help us just defensively.

A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.

I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.

I'm no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat.

I think women should be more independent. In society, we're portrayed as people who simply wear make-up and sit around. We need a Princess Charming - a woman who rescues her man and slays the dragon instead of the other way round.

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.

I don't need to wait for someone else to get a bright idea and say, 'I wanna work with this guy.' I can do my own thing and drop it right on the Web and bypass you and your bright idea.

Me being me, I put the numbers from my hospital's website from my tumor sizes into a spreadsheet.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck.

I don't have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.