Quotes About Self-reliance

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.

They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen.

Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don't be bound by rules, don't hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else's dream.

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

Invest in yourself first. Expect nothing from no one and be willing to work for everything.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.