Carles Puigdemont Quotes

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 whatever you want to persevere, work for your own things, and do not depend on anyone to be your provider. That way, in the future, you will be all right regardless of the circumstances.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership - first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

Being independent opens the doors to so many other things for you.

My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

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

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

I'm very independent.

I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.

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