Quotes About Self-reliance

I wasn't really worrying too much about what anybody thought: if you do that you shut yourself down.

I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.

Stop worrying what other people think.

I can't spend my life worrying about others.

I stopped worrying about people; I started thinking that I would be answerable only to myself.

It came to me that the one thing I could do was cook. And I figured I couldn't do any worse than the people running these places around town.

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.

I have quit chewing tobacco and don't touch any lager beer, and I don't speak to the girls at all. I am getting to be a perfect hermit; my fiddle, my dog, and my gun I almost worship.

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'

I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

I think you can do anything you put your mind to. I think your mind is the worst thing you can use as a reason to not do something.

You don't need a cheerleader. That's the worst thing that can happen to you.

Maybe the worst thing is not caring what people think. That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.

I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.

No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran.

Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.