Quotes About Self-reliance

No individual should rely on any other human being or system to define their worth as a human being. You have to begin to find that within yourself.

It doesn't matter what anyone tells me, I know that I can rely on myself. It comes from my parents. They are the same strong-minded people as I am and I just don't let anyone bring me down.

I like track and field for the simple reason that I determine my own outcome. I don't rely on my coach or the president or the CEO making a decision. I'm kind of like the CEO of my own corporation.

I don't rely on the strength of my image.

I don't think God makes mistakes and I think that women have to not rely on men to define their worth.

I am a hands-on mother and don't rely on maids.

You have to see the situations in games, you can't just rely on other people to do it.

Understanding money is part of being independent. You can't be self-sufficient if you're relying on someone else.

You have to figure out some way of making money without relying on video ads or people paying to download.

I played a little football but it was nothing like boxing. One on one. Me vs. you. You win, you win. I lose, I lose. It was for me to build the character inside to be like, how do I get better at this without relying on anybody else?

I'm tired of relying on someone to drive me around. I just want my freedom.

I always say to the players, 'You can either create or wait.' If you're waiting, you're relying on someone else, as simple as that. But if you create it, you've got to do it.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

We must remember that self-reliance and eradication of poverty demands - indeed, compel - the present generation to bear hardship and make sacrifices. Those who are employed have a duty to the future of India. They have to be more productive and consume less so that resources can be made available for investment and for programmes to help poor.

I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so I could say one day that my daddy didn't pay for my first short film. And I really established myself in the film festival world.

It's worth remembering that immigrants come to this country to work, they don't come to get handouts.

I just want to remind people that you know yourself better than anybody else and if you don't believe in yourself, then who will?

We first started to rent old VFW halls in Philly or whatever; we rented kegs and did parties and played our own music. We had to find a way to do it because nobody else was helping us, and I think now it's important to keep those dialogues happening, those parties happening.

When the gig ain't there, you still got to pay the rent. I learned that a long time ago.

As long as you have your own apartment and you can pretty much make rent for the next year, you're golden!

As a kid, I had my head under the hood of a car, either an old Ford or a Chevrolet, just learning about it so if anything happened, I could repair it.