Stephen Karam Quotes

You've got to make sure every decision you make is right for you as a person. If you think you can go to a better club than the one you're at, then, regardless of what anyone says, you should go.

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

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.

I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.

So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.

You have enough people against you... be for yourself.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

I never allow myself to be pressured.

It's what I tell my daughters: Know that your birthright is to shine your light, and don't let anybody deny you of that right. Take responsibility for your life.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

I have my own strength.

I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me.

All I have to do is what's right for me.

I'm just not willing to give up on myself. If I'm going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits of my talent.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.