Big Sean Quotes

I like to make my own mistakes.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

I need to be allowed to make my own decisions and mistakes, take leaps - and fall - without receiving too much help, because it's what I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

You have to work on your own thing. You have to work on yourself, and you have to bring something to the game.

I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.

I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.

If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.

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

I do believe in self-help.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.

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?

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

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

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.

When you do what I've done - the normal Hollywood way, where you let people do things for you - and then you make certain choices where you have to learn to do it for yourself, which is how you should do it, it caused me to get way behind in stuff. I wouldn't change a thing because it's been a very important learning thing.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.