Quotes About Self-reliance

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

You cannot be successful and continue to be a victim.

'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.

I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.

Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.

You got to be brave and have courage, believe in yourself, because that is the first thing to success is believe in yourself.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

I can deal with everything. I got the answer for anything.

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

I was never afraid of failure. I realized that I was responsible for my own success and that every day offers a new beginning and I was confident in my ability to improve.