Bob Greene Quotes

You can't expect anyone to hand something to you. And I'm OK with that.

People shouldn't think that something is their birthright. They need to prove themselves.

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

The gods help them that help themselves.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

Nothing has been handed to me my entire life. You have to go there and take it. My mom taught me that.

I don't want anything handed to me, I want to work for everything I have... that's the way I've done everything in my life.

There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.

Life helps those who help themselves.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself

I never expected anything to be given to me.

I don't expect anyone to give me anything.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

God helps those who help themselves.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

God helps those who help themselves.

I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.