Charles Frazier Quotes

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

I got tired of asking people to do stuff and waiting on results, so I just took it into my own hands.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

Do whatever you want to persevere, work for your own things, and do not depend on anyone to be your provider. That way, in the future, you will be all right regardless of the circumstances.

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

You know what, I'm out there to give 100%, and I do what I think is best. I really don't care what other people think.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.

Don't rely on leaders to do things you're equipped to do yourself.

A practical girl never pines; she takes action.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

I ain't askin' nobody for nuttin' if I cain't get it on my own.

I need to be allowed to make my own decisions and mistakes, take leaps - and fall - without receiving too much help, because it's what I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

I've always been brought up to stand on my own two feet and not rely too heavily on everyone else around me.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.