Quotes About Self-reliance

British people do not like being bossed around.

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

I'd like to be able to be like a director, like Richard Brooks, say. And be able to say, 'I did my best, and this is it, and there's nobody to blame but me.'

I never ask anyone for anything. I've just not been brought up like that.

I might just not be a big-city bug.

You have to build yourself up a bit. You have to believe in yourself, because not that many other people will, you know?

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

I respect people that build a career for themselves.

To see my brother, see my friends, I think it builds character for me, just being accountable for myself.

This is the America we know because we built it.

I'm an athlete. I'm strong. I'm tough. And that's how women should be. That's how they should be built.

I don't want to be a burden on anybody.

Everyone has issues, and I'm not someone who likes to burden people.

I don't want to be a burden to anyone.

I trust the individual over the bureaucracy.

Mum used to have my sister to look after, so I had to make my own way to training. I would get a bus to town and another one to Netherton. It would take about an hour.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.

Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks.

See, me, I don't run away. During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.

During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.

Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

There's danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, 'My life is a little harder than it used to be.' At a certain place you've got to say to the people, 'Suck it in and cope, buddy. Suck it in and cope.'