Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

Stay small and control it yourself.

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

They want us to be self-determined and they want us to be self-governed, and yet when we make these judgments, they don’t like it.

I feel confident. I feel empowered. I feel in control.

Can't nobody handle me.

We've always been do-it-yourself. In that we've had complete control.

When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security of the prenatal state. The more he is taken care of the more he wants care.

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.

What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.

The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.

By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

I don’t define myself by the boys who may or may not like me.