Mahalia Jackson Quotes

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.

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 mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.

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.

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

I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

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

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

I'm worth far too much money. I don't need anybody's money.

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

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

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.

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

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.

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.

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 get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!