Alenka Bratusek Quotes

Whatever I do I will do on my own strength.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

I have based my life on being strong enough to do anything.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

Strong people don't need strong leaders.

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

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

We want everybody to be bossed up.

You have to empower yourself.

You know what, I'm out there to give 100%, and I do what I think is best. I really don't care what other people think.

I can take care of myself.

I'm going to give it my all, but I'm also going to know my worth, know that I have options, and that's the best feeling in the world.

My mother did not raise me to ask for permission to lead.

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

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.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

If you have to rely on yourself, you try harder, and when you try harder, you feel bigger.

All I've ever needed is myself.