Pharrell Williams Quotes

The gods help them that help themselves.

If people want to find things, they find them themselves.

I won't sit in the corner, crying, waiting for people to give me things: things do not just fall from the sky.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

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

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

God helps those who help themselves.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

I want people to see that you don't need to rely on other people to make your dreams happen: you have to grab them yourself.

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

You can't expect anyone to hand something to you. And I'm OK with that.

Life helps those who help themselves.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

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'm going to do things when they are right for me.

I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.