Keiko Agena Quotes

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

I genuinely have to work - I don't have enough money not to. But the last thing I would want is to be looked after.

To me, I don't have any problems. I don't have economic problems. I have an independent life.

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent - whether you use it or not.

I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived.

Finding that financial independence away from a broken relationship is probably one of the most powerful places a woman can get to.

When I was very young, I had to start to working to help my family, while my friends were studying. Since then, I have felt the urgency to escape from every dependency situation.

I paid my own bills even when I was married and my husband could have easily paid them.

Understanding money is part of being independent. You can't be self-sufficient if you're relying on someone else.

I don't have any contracts, so I don't have to split any money up. That was my main thing - just making sure I'm taking care of myself and taking care of Lil B. Just learning to survive, for myself and as a human in America.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.

I don't have the habit of asking money from my parents.