Quotes About Self-reliance

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

My parents keep me grounded. I've spent a lot of time on my own in my life, and I've learnt the hard way.

There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.

I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so.

I realized the world spins without me having to spin it.

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.

There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to the dance club, dance all night, have a little drink, kiss the kid when they come back in and go to sleep. God doesn't need a chauffeur - he needs to drive himself.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

I'm spoilt. I like my own space. I don't even own a microwave, and men don't like that. They want to be looked after.

The thing is, I have been diabetic, and I've been saying I'm diabetic; it's just, people don't write about it to showcase it or to bring awareness to it. So those are just the things that weren't spoken about. And, just like everything else, I had to do it myself to be heard.

I have never spoken for anyone but myself.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone's misery is their own stupidity and laziness.

To wait for someone else or to expect someone else to make my life richer or fuller or more satisfying puts me in a constant state of suspension.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

Marriage has just never interested me.

I will not marry again. There is no need.