Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.

I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible — I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical.

I don't need government to be successful.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

Work alone is noble.

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

I really do think that is why this country is so great: If you want to accomplish something, then you must do it.

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts.

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

No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.