Dave Ramsey Quotes

I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.

Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.

Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.

If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

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.

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

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

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

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.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

I'm of the school of thought where, if you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

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

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

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

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

It is not one government or another that can solve all of the problems. It's you.

Government is but A TRUSTEE--for public, not for private purposes. You must trust your own manhood. You must trust your own foresight, and lay up against a rainy day. You must be educated by hardship, if need be. Government did not beget you, and is not responsible for you save against injustice

Good government can be no substitute for self-government.