There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
Winners are not born, they are self-made.
After all, it’s what we’ve done that makes us what we are.
We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.
My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.
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.
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.
A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
I now realize there are millions of self-made millionaires who started with nothing. They dug inside themselves to find the answers and they succeeded. There is nothing anyone else can do that I can't do.
Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.
A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.
The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.
I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues
Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.
When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.
Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.
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