Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes

To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.

I don't need government to be successful.

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

Never count on the crowd to take care of you.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

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

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

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

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

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

That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me.

Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

I like track and field for the simple reason that I determine my own outcome. I don't rely on my coach or the president or the CEO making a decision. I'm kind of like the CEO of my own corporation.

Expectations are one thing, but you've got to do your own. Got to do your own.

We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self reliant.