Quotes About Self-reliance

I'm happy with myself. I respect myself. And I know that no man, no jeans, no scale, and no booker is in control of my future - I am.

Everybody will have their things to say about what I can or can't do. At the end of the day, I'm the one who has to put on the jersey and play.

Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.

Bill Hewlett and I were brought up in the Depression. We weren't interested in the idea of making any money. Our idea was if you couldn't find a job, you'd make one for yourself.

Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.

Those people are corny. You think I'm rolling to a club with Lyor Cohen or John Meneilly?

Michael Johnson doesn't pay my bills or sign my cheques. So I don't really care what he has to say.

I didn't have any pressure to join my dad to help with the family business. I don't think he needs any sort of support at all. That said, whenever he needs my help, I will always be there for him.

I won't join another band again.

I existed before the mainstream. Why would I join them? I watched the mainstream come up, and now I'm watching it collapse. I don't want to be a part of that.

Remember that before joining Arsenal, I was at Marseille where it was easy for me because I was with my family; I was born there and had played for them since I was nine. I came here on my own, and you grow up more quickly that way. It made a difference, because now I have become a man.

If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them.

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

What sucked was that her room was on the fourth floor of a four-story house because she hated walking past every other room on her way in and out. She was like a latter-day Rapunzel except her hair was only a few inches below her shoulders, slightly fried, not all that blond, and furthermore, who the hell was ever going to climb up to give her a hand? The guy in the wheelchair from school? What she — and Rapunzel, frankly — needed was a decent ladder.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.

Getting up, going to bed, preparing food, eating food--we futile creatures must struggle all the time. Nothing that we need comes to us; we must reach for everything.

it myself!" These are the words that I would hear from my grandson when, as a toddler, he would try to pour juice from a large container into a cup. Grownups aren't much different. It is a well-documented fact that no one of my gender will ever ask for directions. I'm not lost. I can find it myself.

It is always better to earn things than to be given them.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

And heaven knows I took the blows and did it my way.