Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

I don't concern myself with where I fit in. I just keep my head down and keep doing whatever it is I'm going.

I think if something's wrong with me, I just kind of work through it. That's my mentality.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

My mom raised me to never have anything control me.

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

I am not driven.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

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.

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

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

A great mantra to have, whether you're breaking up with your boyfriend or you lose your job, or something changes that you didn't anticipate - which is a fact of life, and very much a fact of running a business - is: 'I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.'

I never let myself get desperate.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self-determination. It will take you very far.

I've always been pretty independent, no matter what situation: good, bad, ugly, happy, sad. I dig deep, and I get over it.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

I have a very strong will.

I can control what I can control. I just focus on me, and that's it.

The only pressure you put on yourself is the one you want to. No one else can pressurise you.

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter what other people think. You're out there running your own race and you want to run everybody as clean as possible.

I don't need others to push me. I push myself.