Henry Ford Quotes

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

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

Today I will not wait for someone to come to my aid. I'm not helpless. Although help may come, I'm my own rescuer. My relationships will dramatically improve when I stop rescuing others and stop expecting others to rescue me.

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

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

When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

Being self-supporting is important to me.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

Never count on the crowd to take care of you.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.

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

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.