Quotes About Self-reliance

I just put all my energy into me and focusing on what I'm going to do, and I'll go in there and do that right through the end of the fight until I get the job done.

I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out... put myself through high school and then college by working. I'm only a half-year short of a degree in history.

We need to give folks an opportunity, not a hand out.

I give strong advice, but I don't expect it to be followed.

I always followed my own path.

When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.

I've never followed my party... I'm no yes-man, I've never been a yes-man.

If you're just a follower, you never know why you are doing something. Then you can't know if something is good or not. How would you know that what you thought is right, if you didn't think it?

I've never been a follower, but I've been an admirer.

I'm not a follower.

I am a leader, I am not a follower. I create my own path, and that way, I cannot blame anyone else if I do not succeed.

What's crazy is, my whole life I been a leader. I'm not a follower.

I don't want followers.

I have always believed in myself. As a footballer, it is essential to have that belief.

I've always played it my way. I failed media training, for example.

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

I don't mind being by myself, even in a foreign country.

I once used a fork to comb my hair because there was a time when I didn't own a hairbrush.

I hate the the word 'disempower,' because it seems kind of cliche, but I do think that we take people's ability to self-teach away by creating this idea that that someone else has to do this for you, that you have to take a course, you have to do it in some formal way.

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

I try to search for roles where the character is not dependent on how she looks, but it is hard because I didn't know anyone in this industry, so I started as an extra and fought.

I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.

When you're in a single-parent home, they try to give you a good foundation, but by the time you're 4 or 5 years old, from that point on you're pretty much on your own.