Pius XI Quotes

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.

I don't need government to be successful.

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

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

Do everything yourself.

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

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment …. The welfare of the workers depends on their own initiative.

In F1, nobody is here to help you, and you have to make your place, and that is done by everyone individually.

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.

You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.

Every man paddles his own canoe.

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

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busybodies and professional "public morals experts" in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

I have only my own burden to bear.

I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you..." "You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

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.

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