Mathew Knowles Quotes

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me what to do.

Children can become self-reliant and self-disciplined by being free to do what they want to do.

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

Why do I manage myself? I don't trust anyone else to do it, to be honest.

I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

There are things one must do for oneself.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.