Marcus Smart Quotes

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.

It emasculated people to be protected in this way... [They should] be used to protecting themselves.

I've always took care of myself.

A girl, whether in the industry or out of it, has to protect herself.

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

I know how to look after myself.

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.

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

Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you.

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

If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.

Women should always take care of themselves first. It makes you more equipped to take care of others.

I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.

In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.