Quotes About Self-reliance

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

You should never ever ever have somebody else who is the foundation of your life. You need to be the foundation of your own sh*t.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.

Never take direction for your personal life from a crowd.

I never got along in school really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

There's no time for boys in my life right now.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

My life is great because I made it that way. Anything other than happiness doesn't get a pass key.

I don't think anybody can really sit down and decide that their mission in life is to make people think. I think their mission in life is to leave people alone!

Life don't come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain't nobody handing it to us.

You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.

'I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive...

It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.

I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back.