Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes

Every tub must stand upon its bottom.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

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

I don't want to be a burden on anybody.

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

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

Tell the people not to depend on me anymore.

I've taken care of myself all my life.

I always thought, 'I'm on my own, and that's the way it should be.'

One thing that was drummed into me when I was younger is that you have to make your own way in life, that you mustn't expect anyone else to support you.

I don't like asking people for things, so if I can do it myself, that's the mindset I have. My dad is very much a do-it-yourself kind of person, so I had a strong sense of independence.

I've always been very independent; I take care of myself.

I don't want to depend on anyone.

I don't need government to be successful.

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.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

I never ask anyone for anything. I've just not been brought up like that.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.