Charlotte Dujardin Quotes

I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

I work hard and I don't come from a rich family.

I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!

I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity

Growing up, we never really had money. If I wanted to get something, I had to go out and get a job.

My father worked with a first-grade education in this country and managed every single day without a hiccup.

No one has ever given me anything. No one gave me a tour card, no one gave me a US tour card, no one gave me a nice house and a Ferrari: I've had to work for every penny I have earned and I'm proud of that.

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

A lot of times when people become successful, people don't really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn't have tons of money, I wasn't conventionally tall or handsome, so you know the things that were available to me were hard work and perseverance.

I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.