Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.

I always try to avoid anything that has to do with my life.

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

I'm keeping my power to myself and my glow. I'm not giving anybody my glow anymore.

It's time to take care of our own.

If you can't take care of yourself, how the heck are you going to take care of everyone around you?

I have learned that it is no one else’s job to take care of me but me.

If I seem to be reckless with myself,It's the fault of no one.All things have a placeUnder the moon as well as the sun.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

Tell everyone you know: “My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook.

I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

I know how to look after myself.

Women should always take care of themselves first. It makes you more equipped to take care of others.

I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.

There's nobody who cares more about you than you, and there's nobody better equipped to take care of you than you.

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

I've aged well because I've had to take care of myself.

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.