Robert Frost Quotes

I've learned in this league that things sort themselves out.

Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us.

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

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.

The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

Ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.