Quotes About Self-reliance

I never had a job. I never saw myself working for corporate business.

Growing up, I was always wearing my brother's hand-me-downs, so nothing ever fit me. I told myself whenever I have my own money and my own choice with what I get to wear, it's always going to fit me correctly.

I don't want to sit until I'm 90 with people running around after me. I'm not one for sitting on the couch.

I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count.

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!

Not everything has to be a couples' event.

I don't ever want to be carried off the court.

I didn't take a lot of crap from people, and I didn't follow the conventional rules of behavior that we're supposed to follow - because if I had, I never would have accomplished what I did.

If you have no road map, you have to create your own.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

I don't believe in credit or loans.

You don't need credit.

I can clean my own house. Now, maybe a couple of times a year we have a cleaning crew come in before we have a party, but otherwise, I'm able to maintain it myself.

I don't have a crew. I have a small family. I never let anybody from the outside in, because I didn't want anybody to say they did anything for me down the line.

I am not one of those girls who will sit on my bed and crib that nothing is happening with my life and things are not working.

I have played cricket on my own terms.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

I couldn't care less about criticism.

Everyone can criticize me. I don't listen to them.

I really don't care to be criticized. I stay in my lane and do me.

I'm not reading reviews and critics. I don't care. I guess I'm still a little on my own planet.