Jeb Bush Quotes

We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

I don't need government to be successful.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success.

I wanted success, but I wanted it on my own terms.

Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

Everything I've ever achieved, I've done on my terms.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it!

Being independent opens the doors to so many other things for you.

I'm not embarrassed to say I want to be successful, but only on my terms.

I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.

I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.

I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

I'm the queen of the independent video!