Shane Carruth Quotes

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.

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

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

With AC/DC, if you've got a problem, you sort it out yourself.

One thing that was drummed into me when I was younger is that you have to make your own way in life, that you mustn't expect anyone else to support you.

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

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

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 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.

I work hard, and I'm very separate from what my parents do.

Whatever I do I will do on my own strength.

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

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

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.

What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.

I basically raised myself.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

We can and we will solve our problems for ourselves. We know how. We can, and we will.