Wolfman Jack Quotes

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

There are things one must do for oneself.

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

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

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.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it.

Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.

Nobody is going to love and honor your dreams like yourself. It's really not looking for someone to be your superhero but for us to save ourselves and to really understand that. I've been at the lowest of lowest of my life, and it took that for me to realize that I want to do better and to be better.

Ultimately, I play for myself, and I take responsibility for my own actions.

'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.

As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl," she said, "you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems."

All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.

You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way.

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

The gods help them that help themselves.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.