Quotes About Self-reliance

I never had a budget, I never had a manager, I never had a PR. I never had nothing. I was getting everything straight out the mud.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

I feel like a semi-single mum.

I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.

It was extraordinary living in Mumbai, navigating my course, understanding how to manage my finances on my own, mapping out my daily expenses.

See, I hold myself through my own muscle strength. That is why I'm built like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.

I have a daughter. I have my imagination. I have friends. I, in no way, am going to louse that up with some idiot man, frankly. They drag you down - I'm talking about my generation of men.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I'm in my own little lane, doing just me. I don't have to fit in.

I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

I'm a free bird and I follow my own rules.

I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.

I am my own home, and my handkerchief is my flag.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

At the end of the day, I'm my own person.

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

I more or less said I was going to try to make an existence off my daddy's royalties or I'm going to make it on my own. Daddy is a legend and he don't need me to keep him alive.

At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.