Quotes About Self-reliance

A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.

Look to yourself for the answer - stop calling your girlfriends and stop calling your mom - you know if it's working or not, you either feel like a goddess or you don't

Both my mom and my grandma were really big influences on me not only by being strong and teaching me to be strong but also owning their salt as well.

The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

I didn't have a stage mom at all. I was the one who planned out my auditions and drove myself an hour and a half into the city.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

I've never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn't just be given to me.

If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or a series of tips that will make more money for me than my own judgment.

My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.

All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you're all right. I don't have to go to premières.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

When you're growing up in a family without a lot of money and four boys, it can't always be, 'Let's go see a specialist, see if you're okay.' If you got hurt, you just walked it off.

Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.

The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.