Bob Crosby Quotes

My kids learned to be independent.

At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

I stay in my lane and do what I want to do. I don't worry about the outside world.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.

I don't listen to anybody. You need my help: Come to me, shut up, forget who you are. I will take care of you. And I do my job.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.

I have a very independent spirit.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

I've always been brought up to stand on my own two feet and not rely too heavily on everyone else around me.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up.