Katarina Witt Quotes

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

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

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

Do whatever you want to persevere, work for your own things, and do not depend on anyone to be your provider. That way, in the future, you will be all right regardless of the circumstances.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

I developed a sense of maturity when it comes to being dependent upon other people. I don't feel anyone really truly wants me to win more than I do.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

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.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

You can't expect anyone to hand something to you. And I'm OK with that.

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

Whatever I do I will do on my own strength.

There are things one must do for oneself.

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

I don't need government to be successful.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.