Quotes About Self-reliance

I'm just doing me, and to me, that's what got me this far.

You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

I never get my hair done. I just do it myself.

If you really want something, you've gotta just do it and not wait for other people to hand it to you.

I actually just keep things very professional. I don't need acceptance from anyone but God, so that's just kind of where I focus it all.

I don't really engage much in the creative community. I just kind of keep to myself and do my work.

We started making independent records. We started in '94 until about 2000 when just kind of just did it ourselves... We'd write our own songs. No one cared... At some point, we decided to try and write our own original stuff and one of the last independent records is when we wrote the song 'I Can Only Imagine.'

When things get rough you just kind of do it yourself.

I'm not looking for anybody or anything. I'm just living my life.

I'm not too big on stylists. I find it fun just looking for myself, seeing if I can put things together. It's like a secondary hobby for me.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

I'm keeping my power to myself and my glow. I'm not giving anybody my glow anymore.

I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.

I don't do anything keeping Bollywood in mind.

I am single and enjoying it. My work is keeping me busy.

I decided that I was going to be the Kennedy who makes her own name and finds her own job and works like a dog. My comeuppance was when Arnold got elected - I became the Kennedy who was married to the governor.

It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.

As much as innovation is important, I think we also need to just make stuff. If we look at Kenya, where I'm from, as an example, we are importing everything down to toothpicks.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

Making an independent film is so great because you're your boss. And you have to be disciplined. You know? Because there's nobody telling you anything. But you have to kinda, you know, if you have an instinct to do something, you do it. There's nobody to run it by.