Quotes About Self-reliance

I moved out after college, and I started working right away, and I've been working ever since.

I don't view myself as marching to any right-wing drummer.

In the new economy, we all have to be entrepreneurs with our own lives - with all the rewards and risks and, yes, anxieties that entails.

I think life should be easier as you get older and not more difficult. And Ritchie is too difficult a person for me to deal with, because I like to have control of my own life.

I always rode for myself.

I was my own role model.

For me, honestly, the term 'role model' means for someone to be imitated, and I don't feel like anyone is to be imitated.

I am no one's role model.

I don't have a role model.

I never had a role model or something.

I'm not capable of being in a group where I'm not the leader. I did it once earlier in my career with Legacy, and that was cool because I was young and green and a rookie in the industry, but now no more.

We still have slavery of all kinds - slavery of thought, slavery of ideas, slavery of cultureand I think 'Roots' exemplifies, in a very strong way, man's need to think for himself, feel for himself, do for himself.

I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.

I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

You grow up rough, you think differently. You think you've got to protect yourself at all times. I didn't want any help. I thought I could do everything by myself, which you can't.

I wouldn't go down the route of having an assistant. I don't want to be like that. I want to be normal.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.

I don't take well to rules.

I like to play by my own rules.

I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.

I don't want to ride on Sabbath's coattails in order to encourage my own opportunities.

I don't watch TV. I don't watch anybody else's saga but my own.

I buy my own clothes. I have a teacher's salary.

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.