Quotes About Self-reliance

You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies.

It is good to work for your living.

A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be.

Work as if there's no one to help you, and learn as if everybody is with you.

I wish to be a product not a consumer.

Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed.

Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun...and you'll have no regrets.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

I actually had to start from nothing and build my own way out of it by making financial goals... It's been an interesting journey but one I can relate to in terms of struggling.

I'm the only person who stands in my way, whether I finish a song or if I'm, you know, struggling. So, I see myself as my own competitor.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

You know, I'm a man, and men are proud and stubborn. We don't go running to the doctor when something's wrong. We let it play out a little bit.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

I do what I want to do instead of what other people think I should do, and I'm kind of stubborn that way.

I've always been a stubborn kid.

My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way - I know the best way. That helped me from a 14-year-old to 25 in getting me to where I got to.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.

In college, you become truly independent; your discipline is honed. It has to be there for your studies. It helped make me who I am, and it increased my determination to be the best I could be.

I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.