Sarah Palin Quotes

Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

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

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out.

We can and we will solve our problems for ourselves. We know how. We can, and we will.

My mom had not worked a day in her life, and then she woke up when I was 15 and found herself with four children, no job, no money. But she set out and made it all OK for us, and from that, I saw that there's no problem that can't be solved.

As one who has been in hard situations, I believe that I know how to deal with complicated and hard situations.

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

When we launched, we had to figure out every problem - big or small - on our own.

The greatest thing my dad taught me came from when I called him from a phone booth and said, 'Hungry. No bus token. Please. Out of options.' He said, 'Pfft, get a job.

Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

I'm not like Puff Daddy, I hold my own umbrella.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

If I need something, I'll invent it.

My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

When there are things that don't go according to plan, London will cope.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

I'm blessed with a great memory. To be honest, a lot of times, being on my own at such a young age, my memories were all I had. I didn't have many pictures.

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.