Rashida Tlaib Quotes

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself.

I put myself through college.

I don't want anything handed to me, I want to work for everything I have... that's the way I've done everything in my life.

My first vehicle I had to buy it myself and work to get it. My dad was really hard on me.

A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

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.

If you have to rely on yourself, you try harder, and when you try harder, you feel bigger.

The big things I've had are things I bought myself.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

My dad was pretty old school. I've had a job since I can remember, and it's not like he was like, 'Hey, what kind of car do you want?' My first car was a '91 Ford Crown Victoria that was $1,000. And I had to buy every car after that. I had to do it all.

I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.

I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

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

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.

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.

My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.

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!

My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.

If you're trying to raise a son, it gives you a chance to say things like, 'Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice.'