Alexis Arguello Quotes

Nobody ever gave me anything. Everything I got I had to work for.

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.

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.

I've worked hard for my life. No one gave me anything.

Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.

I don't believe in handouts, I believe in working hard for what you want.

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.

I am happy with the way things are turning out for me because it is only my hard work and no one else's push.

I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible — I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical.

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.

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.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

Work alone is noble.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

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.