Quotes About Self-reliance

Live for yourself.

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answer lie inside of you.

Every little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make learning unnecessary.

Pour yourself a drink, put some lipstick and pull yourself together.

Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.

Today's a new day. It's your day. You shape it. Don't let it be shaped by someone else's ignorance or fear.

If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'

A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is turned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.

I'm at the age where i don't have to kiss arse or play nice!

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I've been holdin' my own since that age.

I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

Once I got to the age where I was like, "I could just do it by myself," they was like, "Go do it."

Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

I decided to design and build my own stereo amplifier system at age 13.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.