Ray Bradbury Quotes

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

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.

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

People don't save other people. People save themselves.

I've lost jobs before; I've had contracts not renewed, and it didn't get me down. I didn't get upset; I just keep it moving. That has always been the case, and that will always be the case. You must look out for you.

Do whatever you want to persevere, work for your own things, and do not depend on anyone to be your provider. That way, in the future, you will be all right regardless of the circumstances.

I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.

You cannot rely on other people's support.

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

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

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

I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.

I can look after myself and my own.

With AC/DC, if you've got a problem, you sort it out yourself.

I'm very realistic about who's coming to my defense. I am my defense.

One thing that was drummed into me when I was younger is that you have to make your own way in life, that you mustn't expect anyone else to support you.

I've learned not to buy into what other people say. I've learned not to put dreams in other people's hands.

My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don't need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis.

I cant save you, you have to save yourself.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried to make someone aware of something in her life, the situation just got worse. Consequently it was up to her to solve her problems by herself, using whatever methods she deemed necessary.