Quotes About Self-reliance

At some point, an industry has to either succeed or fail on its own merits.

At the end of the day all I've ever asked for is to be allowed to succeed and fail on my own merits. Not based on what somebody else wants me to do or thinks I should do. Or, what they want me to say or what they think I should say.

Clean up your own mess.

It's your career, your face, your name. You have to be in control because if something gets messed up or something doesn't look how you want it to, you're the only one to blame.

People get messed up because they have a million guys they have to take care of. I don't have that.

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

You can't feed a cat with cream and food in the kitchen and expect him to go catch mice.

Mickey is his own person.

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.

Man, just give me a couple of million dollars and let me go on my own, and I will be just fine.

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

I don't take a backseat to nobody. That's just my mindset.

My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.

I hadn't gone to high school. I left Minnesota, I left home, I was on my own. I was seventeen.

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

I'd always cared extremely little for public opinion because I was always obsessed with my own opinion and hence had no time at all for the public's.

Io non ho mai avuto un padre e non ho mai avuto una madre, ma ho avuto sempre il mio Montaigne.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Now we know, as she does, that she can carry on, that discovering that men can't be counted on doesn't mean the world ends, that she's a whole person.

You have created a life, now let the child have it. Let him decide what he wants to do with the life you gave him

She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.

I don't see why a maid should take a husband when she's bold enough to fight her own battles

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women do when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.