Quotes About Self-reliance

I left school at the age of 16 with no education or income; taking the first job I could get working in a hair salon.

First of all, how could I be broke, and I got all these companies?

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

I like to come and go as I please which means I'm not anxious to dash back from the studio to fix dinner for a man.

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.

I started to learn some common sense. Even just sort of day-to-day things. I started to cook a little bit more and try to learn to fix things around the house. If something breaks down, rather than call a guy, there's got to be more I can do.

Boarding school forces you to grow. You have to wake up at a certain time, you have to study, wash your own clothes. We used to play rugby in whites. Can you imagine washing that? And it has to be white. If it was not white, you got punished.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it's not for me. I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

Just do what you want to do, and who cares what people think. That's always been my thing.

There's nobody who cares more about you than you, and there's nobody better equipped to take care of you than you.

We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves.

I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.

John Wick is not a guy that asks for help, so when he goes to somebody for help, whoever that is, you know he's a serious cat.

Whoever is in that ring, they are not enough for me, and they can't handle me.

I just do my thing regardless of whoever I'm with: Eminem, Dr. Dre, Snoop, whoever.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.