Quotes About Self-reliance

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

I'd rather be a fool than a vulture feeding off other people.

Next time a rattlesnake bites you, or you crack a rib, or find some whore with a sliced-up arm, don't call me. Call somebody who doesn't care." ~0~

You do it to yourself

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Work alone is noble.

Be not the slave of Words.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.

I was naughty but never demanding. I never asked my parents for shoes or tracksuits. I was happy with what I had.

If having it easy means there are more doors open to you, then one must not forget that you still have to navigate your life yourself.

Very often, if a founder is waiting around for someone else to tell him what to do, the company is near death.

I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

Why borrow if you are not in need of it? You must lend feet to the maximum of your bed only, and not to borrow except in the case of necessity.

Starting my own label was more out of necessity. I'm not going to sit around and wait for labels to come screaming.

I am often driven by necessity, rather than actually doing things like an adult.

Well, you know, I've always been an entrepreneur. I've had it out of necessity.

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

I don't need friends.

All I've ever needed is myself.

I think about that with kids - you want to do everything for them, but you realize if you do everything, and you make it easy on them, they won't learn anything, and then they will walk around life needing their mamas all the time, and that isn't attractive.