Quotes About Self-reliance

Typically, my advice to young artists is not to wait for someone to allow you to do the thing. Just do the thing, and they'll catch up.

I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

You can be accessible without catering to an audience.

I don't like to be part of the cattle. I like to just do my own thing.

In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.

Women need to be empowered to shape their own livelihoods and become CEOs of their own lives. They must be allowed to take control of important life decisions that are so often decided by others.

I believe in myself and I know I'm capable of doing certain things that nobody can really do, I would say.

What's really cool is, I'm secure in myself. So people can have opinions, they can say whatever they want, but at the end of the day I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do, and if I feel a certain way, that's how I feel.

I am not in chains. My mind is my own.

No matter what industry you're in, there will be naysayers. So you have to be your own champion.

Players talk about wanting to win and wanting to be a champion, but ultimately, they want to do it on their own terms.

I'm not concerned with appeasing people with a dream match. What I care about is Neville and my championship. That's all I care about.

I really feel like people who want to change things need to go out and change it themselves and not look to politicians to do that.

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

I loved living with my parents - that's probably why I did it for so long. But it was almost too easy to live there. I had to force myself to get out, had to challenge myself. I had to start a new chapter.

I grew up in rural Arkansas, and I'm afraid that begging is not part of our characteristics.

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.

If you ask me, there's nothing more incredible than a woman who's in charge of her own destiny - and working daily to make her dreams a reality.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

I just think that people should be in charge of their own bodies.

I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.

I am a big believer in taking responsibility for your actions. I tell my kids every day to 'own it' - 'it' being whatever they've said or done. At some point in your life, you are in charge. You call the shots. You decide to eat or not eat.

I'm taking charge of my own business because I don't trust anyone else to do it.

Everyone has to be in charge of their own destiny.