Harry Browne Quotes

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

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

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.

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

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

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

There are things one must do for oneself.

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

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?

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

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.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

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

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

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

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment …. The welfare of the workers depends on their own initiative.

I just kind of do my own thing, which has made me feel like a better player, a better pro because I'm in control of it. I don't have anybody who is pushing me to do something - I'm pushing myself.

I want people to see that you don't need to rely on other people to make your dreams happen: you have to grab them yourself.

Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

You don't wait for somebody to give you something. Then it's not going to happen.

I know that I'm in grime, but I had to separate myself and do things myself.