Quotes About Self-reliance

I don't need to have someone tell me what I'm going to be entertained by.

I think it's important to teach kids to entertain themselves and to be entertaining.

I'd like do a film which I can carry entirely on my own.

I don't want to raise someone who feels entitled.

I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.

I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.

For me, I've always been an entrepreneur.

We've got to get back to being the America we once were. The entrepreneurial spirit. The accountability. When a man was a man.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.

I had to work on my own to establish myself.

My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.

Everybody is their own person.

Just because everybody else does something isn't a good enough reason to do anything.

I have to keep doing me. I have to not look at what everybody else is doing, or what everybody else thinks should be happening right now.

Truly blessed are those who have their own solitary time and space. They are not easily shaken by the praise or criticism of the world. When they are weakened and worn down by things that are not true, they can always regain strength by entering that time and space of solitude.

You will be able to live as your authentic self when you find that infinite source of energy and that mind, bright and shining like the sun. Then you won't need to become anyone other than yourself. You won't need to depend on externals for your health and happiness, and you won't need to look outside yourself to find passion and hope for life.

Happiness is something we create ourselves. To our eyes, the sun appears to rise in the east every day to create a brilliant morning for the earth. The sun, however, does not create the morning alone: the earth also creates it actively as it rotates every day. We shouldn't just wait for happiness, either. Happiness doesn't come when we wait for it: we make it ourselves.

Si he conseguido ser un ciudadano honrado, quizá sea porque nunca me incliné ante nadie.

When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!