Quotes About Self-reliance

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

I only work once or twice a year for about a month, so I have a lot of free time. But I'm good at being alone, which helps.

Money wants no followers.

I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.

There are no gatekeepers. So all the things we want people to cast us in, we can just make ourselves.

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.

I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY

People can think what they want to think, I don't go after people. I think most people I talk to, like me, are very quiet and keep to themselves, they maintain their lives.

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

I'm such an independent person, I always want to do everything myself.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

The people who receive the most approval in life are the ones who care the least about it--so technically, if you want the approval of others, you need to stop caring about it.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

One thing that I love about World Vision is every place they go, they go in with an exit plan, they don't want people dependent on them.

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she's very driven, she doesn't need a man, she's speaks her own mind, and that she's in control of her own life. It's a lot of what women want and have.

I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

I never read reviews of something I want to see.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

If you don't take it, I'm going to throw it away," Alex cheerfully retorted. "I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.