Quotes About Self-reliance

There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.

Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's

Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.

I admire my mother. She raised four kids and worked and had no help.

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

I'm not giving any guidance, OK. I mean, you know, mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right? Anyway, so he's [Sean] doing his own thing.

You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you're prepared to defend yourself.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.

An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect.

You know who you belong to, Jack?""Yeah.""Yourself."He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.