Danny Kaye Quotes

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

If you have to rely on yourself, you try harder, and when you try harder, you feel bigger.

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

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

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.

I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

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.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

You have to empower yourself.

I moved from Stockholm to London, and I didn't want to work with my parents or have them help me in any way, I think just to prove to myself that I have my own talent.

I'm just doing me, and to me, that's what got me this far.

I don't need others to push me. I push myself.

Without appearing smug in any way, I would say I did not have a role model. I wish I had but I did not.

'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.

There are things one must do for oneself.

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

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

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

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.