Howard Mumford Jones Quotes

I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

I'm very optimistic, but I'm optimistic about individuals, not institutions.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.

Be yourself, take control of your life.

I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

I don't think there's anything I can't do. I have no regrets.

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

You always knows what's best for you.

I don't live for anyone other than myself, and I don't have a problem showing people or telling them.

I'm just trying to show people that I ain't gotta ride off no movement. I can ride off myself.

Really, I think the biggest thing is just playing your game and doing what you do.

I need to go out there and run my own race, and have fun with it.

For me, it's all just about playing my game.

I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out.