Quotes About Self-reliance

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.

I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!

Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

If I have to use a body double, it means I'm not well prepared to do what I have to do.

We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.

I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants much.

My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'

At 2, I start preparing fish or chicken for dinner. I don't drive. I don't have hobbies. I have no desire to travel.

Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation.

If so and so would have given me the right opportunity, or if this person would have encouraged me - I could have made a million excuses on why I wasn't playing in the NFL. You have no more excuses... what do you do from now until your opportunity presents itself? It's all up to you.

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.

I don't pressure anyone to do anything for me.

I don't really feel any pressure. I can control only what I can control.

You don't need to bow down to peer pressure or be comparing yourself.

I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

I don't care what other people say. The important pressure, you put on yourself. The pressure that others put on you? I ignore it.

I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.

I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.

I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

In a personal context, I'm not in the ground, and I'm not in an institution. So I guess I'm doing pretty good.