E. W. Howe Quotes

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

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

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

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

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

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.

Expectations are one thing, but you've got to do your own. Got to do your own.

All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.

For one cannot assume that God exists to help people who are too cowardly and too lazy to help themselves and think that God exists only to make up for the weakness of mankind. He does not exist for that purpose. He has always, at all times, blessed only those who were prepared to fight their own battles.

There are things one must do for oneself.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

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

I don't need government to be successful.

Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts.

Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.