Lexi Underwood Quotes

No one is going to give me opportunities. I've gotta take them.

At the end of the day, I come from a culture and an upbringing where you create your own path. There is no seat at the table for you? You create your own opportunity.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

Don't hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work on it. Not to buy into the so-called apprenticeship.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

My idea of putting the city on is giving inspiration to others to want to put themselves on. You should never depend on someone else to put you on. I used to do that, and it didn't get me anywhere.

I know that I'm in grime, but I had to separate myself and do things myself.

You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

I don't need others to push me. I push myself.

Without appearing smug in any way, I would say I did not have a role model. I wish I had but I did not.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

If you can't hire someone smarter than you, do it yourself.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.