Quotes About Self-reliance

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.

Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.

If we have a very strong commitment, so that we can trust ourselves and be beacons of trust for others no matter what the circumstance, then we're protected from suffering the consequences of many actions. We can be protected from that pain.

I came out of UCB and, before that, punk rock, and the whole deal was you do it yourself. Get up and rent the space, get up and press your own records, get up and silkscreen your own tees, get it done yourself. That sort of self-reliance will only serve me. Any time I lose sight of that, my career suffers.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

I don't look at my work as an avenue for generating more work. For me, my work itself is sufficient.

I don't have a sugar daddy, I've never had a sugar daddy.

I'm someone who doesn't often ask for help, just suggestions.

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

I am the same man writing the music. I haven't changed directions to suit anyone except me.

I taught my girls to pick up their own suitcases. Pretty is as pretty does.

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

I haven't tried to model myself on anyone. I have my own action, and that suits me.

I like being permanently single. It suits me perfectly.

Every Saturday and Sunday, when the other guys were out having a good time at the mall, I was at home working in the garden.

I might have sung party numbers, but I love to party alone.

If I were packing for a deserted island, I would bring sunscreen, a water purifier, something to start a fire with, my sister, and something for protection.

I started driving really late. It was super freeing and fun to be able to just drive by myself. But the thing is, I don't really like driving.

Then suddenly you're left all alone with your body that can't love you and your will that can't save you.

Take the destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. For the creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

Nobody can advise you and help you, nobody. There is only one way. Go into yourself.

You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you are upset when certain editors reject your work. Now (since you have said you want my advice) I beg you to stop doing that sort of thing. You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you — no one