Quotes About Self-made

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

I, along with everybody else, had bought into the myth of Donald being a self-made man and being a brilliant developer. I had no idea that none of that was true because everybody acted like it was true.

My entire youth has been Nasty Gal. My entire future is Nasty Gal.

jealousies and hatreds; there was no loyalty or decency anywhere about it, there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar. And worse than there being no decency, there was not even any honesty. The reason for that? Who could say? It must have been old Durham in the beginning; it was a heritage which the self-made merchant had left to his son, along with his millions.

Fate did not hand Genghis Khan his destiny; he made it for himself.

Brady Hoke is an underdog. He has an attitude, a chip. He's self-made. He always has something to prove.

Nobody should underestimate me. When you have a self-made fighter like I am with the Pride belt I earned, it's not good to underestimate him.

People believed I was fed with a silver spoon in my mouth, but I fought for everything that I have.

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

I am a wife-made man.

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

I grew into manhood thoroughly imbued with the feeling that a man must be respected for what he made of himself.

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

Blood didn't tell. DNA didn't make us. We made ourselves, if we had any guts we made ourselves.

They didn't fuck me up, my mom and dad. On that score, I'm a self-made woman.

So, Mr. Bounderby threw on his hat—he always threw it on, as expressing a man who had been far too busily employed in making himself, to acquire any fashion of wearing his hat—and with his hands in his pockets, sauntered out into the hall. 'I never wear gloves,' it was his custom to say. 'I didn't climb up the ladder in them.—Shouldn't be so high up, if I had.' Being

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.