Evelyn Waugh Quotes

I am very independent. I can look after myself but I still need a lot of love and care.

It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.

I don't need other people. I don't need help. I can take care of me.

I want people to provide for themselves.

Alone I'm nothing.

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.

You cannot rely on other people's support.

Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings

As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl," she said, "you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems."

You have people like Sarah Jessica Parker - and it's also because of her mother and where she came from and all that stuff - but how you're taught to be responsible for yourself rather than endlessly people waiting for you and bringing you things.

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

I have learned that it is no one else’s job to take care of me but me.

What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.