Quotes About Self-reliance

Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thought for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it...

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

A lot of times,, you are not going to fit in; a lot of times you are going to have to skip those parties to get to where you want to be.

I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

I believe that if we get out of people's way, the sky's the limit. The sky is the limit.

They say that if you give your children too much, they don't get the joy out of work. They just want the unearned things to keep falling from the sky.

I won't sit in the corner, crying, waiting for people to give me things: things do not just fall from the sky.

I do like to have a clean slate, especially when you're in indie film.

The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.

I'm afraid to go to sleep; I don't like to lose control of myself. I don't like chauffeurs, either. I like to be in charge of my own destiny.

I always sleep on my own. I can't sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I'm very individual and I want my own space.

Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleeping, my mom would still be sleeping, so I would literally play 'Monopoly' by myself. I would play board games; I would do things by myself.

I absolutely do not have anything to prove to anyone, and I don't wear anything on my sleeve.

You see a lot of women who take the negative things that come their way and let it slide off them, like they are coated with Teflon.

I never bothered about critics in the first place. And I'm not out to prove anything to anyone. Honestly, if I took every slight that someone made at me seriously, it just wouldn't work.

In some ways, I'm slightly like a single parent, so I need to be able to provide for my family.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.

Whenever you need something from someone else before you can move forward, it's a dependency. We believe dependencies slow people down. We want people to be more independent, because that will keep them moving forward.

I never expect anything from anybody. I'm a bit Scottish like that - I don't like to be disappointed and let down. I like to take life very slowly.

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

Never ask for small loans.

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.