Quotes About Self-reliance

Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.

With agents, I've learned to bring them into the process when I feel confident. You're the only one that can really know what's right for your career. You're on a wing and a prayer through most of it.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Nothing creates a winner quite like earning it, not just inheriting it.

I like winning or losing, failing or succeeding on my own merit.

Texans fear no one.

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don't care what anyone has to say about it. My joke is that the only people I'm trying to please are myself and my fans, because they're the ones buying my records. And I have the best, most loyal fan base ever.

I'd like to see great textbooks, great opportunities for kids to really understand stock market investing, because at the end of the day, they are going to be all they have in terms of creating a life for themselves, a retirement account, and things like that.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.

Thank god 'Real' was successful, but I feel like 'Emmanuel' will be even more successful. All my ideas, I could put them to work myself, on my own time. I had more control, and it shows.

I don't live with people, that's why my relationships last. I'm not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say, - no, it's not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you'.

I'm thankful I don't have parents that I feel I need to get their attention. They've always been there for me.

Thankfully, I have other skills than just standing there and looking cute.

Life as a pro is definitely an individual sport. Thankfully that's how I've always been so I like it that way.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Being independent opens the doors to so many other things for you.

The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.

I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.

Every man must know how to cook; this is the first thing that we are taught back home.