Marcus Garvey Quotes

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

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.

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

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

I think that you're just as close to Jesus if you use the equipment he gave you other than to call on him to do for you what you can do for yourself.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

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

I am not driven.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

The gods help them that help themselves.

I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

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.

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

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

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.