Quotes About Self-reliance

I want people to be true to themselves and believe in themselves. I want people to stop looking to celebrity idols and look to themselves instead, because we need real people to inspire us.

There's no better girlfriend than your own work, because when it goes away, you realise how important it is.

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

Never feeling really at home in any one country is always challenging. You realise that you have to lean on yourself and to own it.

People have said I'm a puppet, an instrument of my grandfather, but I think they quickly realised that I'm my own person, that I have autonomy in my actions. I think they rapidly realised I could look after myself.

I have realised I do not have any back up, or filmi background, or any influential person who is making movies for me. I have to take this journey on my own, and be careful. For me, if I do something wrong, I am not going to get second chances.

Ive been wanting to play Macbeth for quite a long time but then I just realised nobody is going to offer me the role so I have to generate it myself.

I'm very realistic about who's coming to my defense. I am my defense.

If I'm going to have baked goods in the morning, the rule is that I have to make them myself.

I don't need to Google myself.

I'm not big on looking up myself. I don't get Google alerts, and I don't look on blogs.

Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.

I left Google after four years of working on Google Maps, search, and Google TV as a product marketing manager. I knew I wanted to do something on my own.

I just tell myself I gotta get up at 8 A.M. I don't even use an alarm clock.

You gotta do things your own way. You have to find your own path. You have to take what appeals to you and leave all the rest.

Baby, everything I have I've worked for and gotten myself.

I've just never really gotten caught up in what people think about me, because I can't control that.

I have gotten used to working in the dark and I dig it.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.

I was always interested in having my own money - not my family's money. I don't think it had anything to do with me being Elvis's granddaughter. None of my drive was, 'I need to get away from my family legacy!'

That's what made me a man, having to fend for myself and being in a situation where there is no dad, no grandma, and no mom to help you. It changed the person that I am today.

My grandma divorced my granddad and became a finance manager to get her own house, and my mum worked very hard to make sure we could have our own space.