Lena Headey Quotes

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

There are things one must do for oneself.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

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

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.

I've learnt to take care of myself.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I'm really grateful for that.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

More than anything, I think my connection to the sea has really helped me develop my independence and a sense of the importance and value of my own vision.

I like being on my own, building on my own, and standing on my own.

You have to empower yourself.

I think being independent gives you a different confidence about yourself. It gives you more power, especially in certain relationships.

I joined the army because I was a very self-sufficient young man. I always wanted to stand on my own two feet.