Lea Thompson Quotes

Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

If you're trying to raise a son, it gives you a chance to say things like, 'Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice.'

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

You should know how to take care of yourself. That's one of the things that I got from my mother most - she always said that if you don't take care of yourself, no one will.

I've always had a job. I left home when I was 16, and you have to look after yourself.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.'

Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

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.

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.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

I work hard and support myself.