Mawra Hocane Quotes

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

If you have to rely on yourself, you try harder, and when you try harder, you feel bigger.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

I will always back myself to achieve what I can achieve. It is all down to me.

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

Our dad was an iron worker, a really tough guy. He raised us to be strong and stand up for ourselves. Whatever we want, we go and get it. Sometimes, you have to take it.

My whole life, nothing was handed to me. I had to go out in the world and get it.

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

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for 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.

I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I didn't want to be that artist that is successful as a result of someone else. Not that that's wrong, but I felt like I had what it took. I really believed I could do it on my own, so I wanted to try, at least.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

When you have confidence, you can do anything.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.