Quotes About Self-reliance

I always think of myself as a working girl.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

I don't believe in handouts, I believe in working hard for what you want.

I am working hard and I will get married when I feel like it.

I grew up working hard to earn everything I had.

The 4th Congressional is a rural district where people are proud to put in an honest day's work. We believe in God and family, and that success is created by working hard every day. We don't want the government interfering in our lives or telling us what to do.

I'm working hard. I'm putting in the hard work. I'm sacrificing. I ain't asking for no handouts. I'm going to earn everything I'm given.

I will just keep working hard and keep believing in myself.

I'll just do my own thing and just keep working hard to play hard.

Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.

To rebuild confidence in the power of people working together to create something better, we must give people the power to do precisely that for themselves.

I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

Most of my workouts happen by myself because I travel so much.

I've never wanted to be a lady who lunches - I've always wanted to be a woman who works.

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

I train as smart as I can. I'm not concerned what others think. I do what works for me.

I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear.