Gregory Isaacs Quotes

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

I don't need government to be successful.

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

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Unless men are taught to rely upon themselves they can never be truly worthy of the name of freemen.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone.

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.

In F1, nobody is here to help you, and you have to make your place, and that is done by everyone individually.

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

I will always back myself to achieve what I can achieve. It is all down to me.

That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me.

I don't believe in legacy. I feel that the 'mega' tag definitely acts as a platform, but after that, it's all on the individual. Legacy does not mean a crown that is passed on; we have to create our own paths.

There's no better way to be than depending on yourself.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

Every man is the son of his own works.