Gaylord Perry Quotes

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?

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl," she said, "you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems."

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.

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

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

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

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.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

I'm all about owning your life.

I can look after myself and my own.

We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.

I was out of the house at 16 by my own doing. It forced me to really grow up and take care of myself, and I learned a lot of things that your parents usually teach you, on my own.

The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

She was afraid, but she couldn't just sit around waiting for someone to save her. She had to try to save herself, try to figure it out.

Don't rely on leaders to do things you're equipped to do yourself.

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