Quotes About Self-reliance

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

When I started my career as an actor, I had no guidance from anyone.

We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.

In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.

When I die, I will not be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.

We didn't leave home until we graduated high school, but when we did, we genuinely left. We went out into the world with 50 bucks, backpacks, and acoustic guitars.

The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

In the past, when I lacked designer duds, I simply relied on my hot glue gun.

I'm not the guy to call the cops.

A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do. For me, it was always my own self-motivation of maybe just wanting to make it out of Compton. I was like that with everything in my life.

I don't have the habit of asking money from my parents.

I always said as long as I had enough money to feed myself and have a place to eat then I'd be doing music.

I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

I felt the same when I went to Manchester United, to Madrid, to Leverkusen, and now at West Ham. The only pressure I have is my pressure. That's it.

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

When I was 14, I remember wanting a Coach bag, and my mother couldn't afford it. I decided at that age that I was going to grow up and get a job so that I could buy as many handbags as I wanted. And no one was ever going to stop me.

I don't want anything handed to me, I want to work for everything I have... that's the way I've done everything in my life.

I think anything you do on your own, so to speak, I think, is worth more than something that is maybe looked upon as gifted to you or handed to you.

I don't expect to need rescuing. I'm not that kind of princess.

And I've never been wicked,' said the Witch firmly. 'Least, not by my measure. Just independant-minded.' 'Wickedness depends on where you're standing, doesn't it?' said Jenny.

If I'm not back by nightfall, come and take a very careful look, said Anya. But I don't expect to need rescuing. I'm not that kind of princess. What kind of princess are you? Not the kind that needs rescuing, said Anya firmly.

BECAUSE THEY LOOK SO SURPRISED TO BE EATEN UP! guffawed the giant. PRINCESSES ALWAYS EXPECTS TO GET RESCUED. Do they? asked Anya mildly. Better they should rescue themselves.