Quotes About Self-reliance

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.

When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.

I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.

I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.

Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on government. There was hardly any of it in those days. More recently, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Larry Ellison used genius to put brand-new ideas into production.

I'm just about to move to a place that you can only get there by rowing a boat across a loch, which I'm thoroughly looking forward to it. It's not got electricity or anything.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

I don't see myself in competition with anyone, I am in my own space; I don't follow anyone, though I appreciate good work always.

I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!'

I'm of the school of thought where, if you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.'

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

Have faith in your own thoughts.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

Think your own thoughts.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

He rose to his feet in one fluid move, the better to look down at me. "You don't know me, princess. Some people have reasons for doing things, and don't just go wherever they're told or drift whichever way they're pushed.

1. Big Bad Ben by Rosemary Wells 2/2/22 read on my own