Quotes About Self-reliance

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

Rudyard Kipling, in his famous poetic description of what makes for mature and effective adulthood, wrote in part: If you can keep your head When all about you Are losing theirs And blaming it on you... If you can trust yourself When all men doubt you... This famous 1909 poem "If" was inspired in Kipling after observing one military leader's actions during the Boer Wars (Lt. Colonel Eduardo Jany, personal communication, October, 2007).

If nobody will help you, do it alone! There is no 'i' in team, but there is '1' in WIN!

Who cares what other people think?" says Alexander. "It's not their team.")

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Much is made of a kind heart," he said. "I'm more of a feed-yourself-or-die kind of guy.

You didn't need to raise millions to build your product and in the process whittle your stake down to almost nothing. You found the concept, you wrote the software to exploit the concept, you sold the company to the public.

Best believe our fates are our own, even if the evidence denies it.

One day, she told us, you'll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone else. To do that you need to learn. The more you learn now, the more interesting your life will be.

If you grow up with uncertainty, you deal with people only on a daily basis, to be even safer on an hourly basis. You do not concern yourself with what you must or should remember about them. You are on your own.

Easy. You want Americans to eat less? I have the diet for you. Cook it yourself. Eat anything you want—just as long as you're willing to cook it yourself.

A land with lots of herring can get along with few doctors.

Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're helping people getting better paying jobs so they can provide for their own health care.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way.

I've believed in myself since day one.

I was emancipated at 15. I went to school and had a full-time job and apartment, and ever since, I've been on my own, parenting myself.

To be sincere, I've never been mad about what anyone thinks.

The thing is, my life is a country song. I don't need to be manufactured, and I don't need anyone to tell me what to say or what to sing.

Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'

I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.

My husband encouraged me to stand on my own, gave me the nudge to do what I wanted - either singing or directing films.

I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.