Anne Sullivan Quotes

The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work on it. Not to buy into the so-called apprenticeship.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

You don't wait for somebody to give you something. Then it's not going to happen.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

Ultimately, I play for myself, and I take responsibility for my own actions.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

There are things one must do for oneself.

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

I do believe in self-help.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.