Ginger Rogers Quotes

I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.

I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

For me, I never want anyone outside of my immediate family and outside of me to have the power to alter the way that I walk, talk, shop, or date. When you start feeding off of that outside acceptance and accolades, you lose sight of what's actually real. Once you get there, it's kind of hard to double back.

No-one but me gets into my head.

I've learned during my life that if I am in hell, I make my own glory. I've also been in glory, and perhaps I've made my own hell, but I certainly don't take anyone down with me.

I've learned not to buy into what other people say. I've learned not to put dreams in other people's hands.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

There are things one must do for oneself.

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

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.

Everything comes out of what works for me.

I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer words and even go back and edit.

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.

I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.