Quotes About Self-reliance

It was really important for me to understand that I needed to provide for myself, and I needed to become a provider for my own family, too.

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

I have worked since I was 12 years old and started providing for my family in Holland by the age of 17 - and I still do today.

I'm not going to worry about proving people wrong. My goal isn't to prove people wrong. You can't worry about what other people say.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

I did something that I told people around me never to do, which was, pay a psychiatrist. Why pay a psychiatrist when you can just come to me? I can help you with something going on in your life; even if I know nothing about you, I can possibly help you. That's just me being cocky like I am.

Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact.

I always wanted to have my own company. It was a psychological issue.

I think part of the way in which kids develop emotional and psychological resiliency is by having some independence.

For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.

I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.

When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

I've done things my own way every since I've entered public office.

I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote, or endorse things, or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

I don't have a publicist.

I don't have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.

I don't need to publish to make a living.

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

When I realized that I can invest in my own marketing and do exactly what I think needs to be done - well, then it just feels like, what is the benefit of having a publisher?

Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

Umm... I don't judge my relationship with Puff or Bad Boy according to other people or past artists. At the end of the day, you are in charge of your career, and you can't depend on no man to do anything for you. I've learned to judge relationships with a person on myself and that person, not what they have done with previous people.

Everyone who knows Puff knows Puff rolls with himself. His hustle is money. That's what he does.