Quotes About Self-made

Happiness can't be bought. It would be way too expensive. You have to make your own.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

Our problems that we created ourselves, are often not as great, as our problems that are created beyond our control.

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made.

He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator.

For the more we think of ourselves as self-made and self-sufficient, the harder it is to learn gratitude and humility. And without these sentiments, it is hard to care for the common good.

For why do the successful owe anything to the less advantaged members of society? The answer to this question depends on recognizing that for all our striving, we are not self-made and self-sufficient. Finding ourselves in a society that prices our talents is our good fortune, not our due. A lively sense of the contingency of our lot can inspire a certain humility.

cuanto más nos concebimos como seres hechos a sí mismos y autosuficientes, más difícil nos resulta aprender gratitud y humildad. Y, sin estos dos sentimientos, cuesta mucho preocuparse por el bien común.

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

I am what I am because I have made myself so.

Life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

They will not look to the altars they have fashioned with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they have made with their fingers.