A. Philip Randolph Quotes

You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.

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

Contrary to popular belief, all I want to do is empower people.

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.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

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 don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

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

Liberation does not come from outside.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Freedom is from within.

They [Americans] were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created, people in the history of the world.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.

I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society — from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.