Quotes About Self-reliance

I am the master of my fate and I am the captain of my boat. While ups and downs are a part of everyone's journey, how you face it makes you the person or artiste you are.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

After a hard day's work on the sets, I can't imagine allotting time to pander to the whims of a husband.

I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.

We don't want Arizona to be dependent on the whims of Barack Obama and the federal government.

I'm not going to whine or get depressed. Who's going to feel sorry for me? Nobody.

There are all of these people that say, my mommy doesn't love me enough, my daddy doesn't hug me enough. There are some people that would want to coddle them somewhere. I want them to shut up and stop whining.

I can't stand whining.

Sometimes we'd have to climb a tree and pick our own whips to be disciplined with. When you had to pick your own whip, you knew you were in for it.

My folks kicked me out of the crib, so I was homeless, living out the whip.

African-Americans don't need handouts and donations; we can hire ourselves if white corporate America does business with us in a fair and equitable way.

You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.

What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.

It's not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It's just that I've gotten used to it.

I always take pride in the fact that nobody can mess with me, and I never let anybody mess with me my entire life.

I always say it's worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It's worth holding out. It's worth having pride.

My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.

My game is hard work and pride. On the all hard-work team, I'd pick myself five times.

There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it's a point of pride.

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

I knew I always wanted to be my own boss. My mum would say I've been my own boss since primary school. It was probably always my destiny.

Men should never be the prime focus of women's life.

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.