25 Quotes About Self-made

Life is actually a self made web of fate.

We need the assistance of others to be born into this world and to leave it. Any success between those two points is a result of similar cooperation. 'Self-made' people can't claim all credit for themselves.

What shall I do to be forever know,And make the Age to come my own?I shall like Beasts or Common People dy,Unless you write my Elegy;Whilst others great by being born are grown,Their Mothers Labour, not their own.In this scale Gold, in th' other Fame does ly,The weight of that mounts this so high.These men are Fortunes Jewels, moulded bright; Brought forth with their own fire and light.If I, her vulgar stone for either look,Out of my self it must be strook.

What shall I do to be forever known,And make the Age to come my own?I shall like Beasts or Common People dy,Unless you write my Elegy;Whilst others great by being born are grown,Their Mothers Labour, not their own.In this scale Gold, in th' other Fame does ly,The weight of that mounts this so high.These men are Fortunes Jewels, moulded bright;Brought forth with their own fire and light.If I, her vulgar stone for either look,Out of my self it must be strook.

No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.