Quotes About Self-reliance

When it comes to girls, you make your own invitations.

Please, I'm a politician's wife. I have a set of my own.

I am a rank individualist.

I always believe in myself, no matter what my ranking.

I really only make my own beats when I feel like I can't wait on somebody, or it's taking too long to get a nice beat to rap on.

After I got dropped by Interscope, I knew in my heart that I had to fight back some way or not rap at all. I just took it upon myself to get myself where I needed to be.

I wanted to rap, but I needed beats. I couldn't buy any, so I just made my own.

I'm always trying to do every part myself, you know what I mean? I'm trying to sing, rap, whatever. I'm trying to do it all.

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

I don't want to be a small-time, independent, successful rapper.

I was one of the rare guys who never wanted to sign a contract.

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.

We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.

I am not interested in ratings by Freedom House or whatever.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings.

I've reached that enviable state in life in which I can do pretty much what I want.

I try not to think about anybody's reaction to what I do.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

We've shown everyone we are musicians first and foremost: we'll produce our own albums and play The 100 Club. We earned people's respect. We're not the band on MTV, wearing a bunch of makeup. We've proved we're the real deal.

I am still very independent in my real life, and that's why I'm always trying to get out of relationships prematurely.