Quotes About Self-made

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

She had learned how to make elixirs for fevers and rashes and potions for love, and as it turned out, magic came back to her, not the bloodline magic she'd been born with, but the magic she made for herself. This was the fate she had chosen.

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.

The people I believed in were people like William Lever, the great philanthropic industrialist - self-made men who realised anyone could achieve.

All people are self-made. Only the successful people admit it.

Contamos historias del tipo hecho a sí mismo porque encontramos algo encantador en la idea de una heroica lucha solitaria contra probabilidades abrumadoras.

We were all born equal, but where we are in life now is of our own making.

Immense self-made wealth is the evidence of a grandly rich mind

Confidence, just like success, is self made.

If you look at practically anyone - I mean, I find this more and more - the more you look at people the more you find that they've actually manufactured themselves. People whose names that you know. I meet lots of people in my ordinary life, away from writing, who seem to be authentic, who seem to know where they've come from and who they are, but anyone that I deal with in, if you like, my profession, we all seem to have made ourselves. I think artists are all self-made.

He is a self-made man and worships his creator.

I don't need anybody, I'm successful in life enough to buy myself a f'ing sandwich.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.

Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our allegiance. Instead, we are self-made, independent, alone, and fragile, a biological species adapted to live in a biological world. What counts for long-term survival is intelligent self-understanding, based upon a greater independence of thought than that tolerated today even in our most advanced democratic societies.

There are two kinds of snobbishness: One is that of the man who has had a good many opportunities and looks down on those who lack them. The other is rarely understood, that of the self-made man who glories in his success in overcoming difficulties and admires greatly people who have achieved the things he considers of importance.

Man could be self-made but Woman would be makeup-made.

Some people not only like or share some news or someone's views on own social media account but also prove to a wise person through this act that they are nothing but self-made fools.

I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.

I don't get things gifted to me.

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.