Quotes About Self-reliance

I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.

From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

I never hitched my wagon to anyone, so what I achieved over the years was done with only my results on the field.

We don't want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.

It's much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you're so doddery it's time you went.

How does a queen bee behave? However she wants to. But please don't wait for someone to hold the door open for you when your own arms work perfectly fine - do it yourself.

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring.

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I guess I'll walk home.' I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me.

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

Don't wait for someone to call you up. You can do anything. You have all the possibilities in the world.

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could.

All you can do is trust your game and not wait for the opponent to give you the match.

Finally I'd found this way where I didn't need a record label; I didn't need to wait for some phone call to tell me, 'Go and do it'. It's like, I'm going to get up with a bag of CDs and an amp and my guitar and make it happen for myself. That was such a liberating feeling, and I think it was the start of everything.

If I had to wait around for somebody to pick me for lieutenant governor, I never would have been picked.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something.

As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.

If you are fearful, choose courage. If you frequently procrastinate, choose to take action now. If you have always waited for others to lead, use your own initiative.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.