Quotes About Self Made

#1. I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing ... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.

Jacob Dalton

#2. Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.

Orison Swett Marden

#3. I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

Dan Mangan

#4. Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Russell Baker

#5. Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

Kevin Kelly

#6. Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

Anais Nin

#7. Be yourself. That's it. I got about 45 [billionaires] . They are all different, all unique, and they are all self-made.

Tony Robbins

#8. My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

Tamara Ecclestone

#9. The humanist, who read too much, ate too much. He quoted and burped, and these two complaints were equally repugnant to his neighbor, a self-made aristocrat, Madame Lenoir.

Marcel Proust

#10. We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

Earl Nightingale

#11. The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

Ethel Mumford

#12. I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

Harry Hay

#13. All people are self-made. Only the successful people admit it.

Ron LeGrand

#14. I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.

Nia Long

#15. We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

Malcolm Gladwell

#16. Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

Eric Hoffer

#17. ... he is a self-made man who has come to worship his creator.

Ross Benson

#18. I am a self-made brat.

Steve Wynn

#19. Christ's humor is always redemptive, never mocking the individual. But He is sharp and sarcastic in His derision of those institutions such as Pharisaism, which posture in their self-made self-importance. Wisdom

John Crowder

#20. Don't be the guy that sat spouting how greatly succesful he was to a random stranger at the airport only to find out later that random stranger was a self-made multibillinaire. OR, in shorter words ... if you toot your horn too loud, you won't hear the freight train coming down the track.

Shelley K. Wall

#21. Definitely that kind of owner, he thought. Self-made man proud of his handiwork. Confuses bluffness and honesty with merely being rude. I wouldn't mind betting a dollar that he thinks he can tell a man's character by testing the firmness of his handshake and looking deeply into his eyes.

Terry Pratchett

#22. The age of the self-made man was also the age of the broken man... This 'American sense' looked upon failure as a 'moral sieve' that trapped the loafer and passed the true man through. Such ideologies fixed blame squarely on individual faults, not extenuating circumstances.

Scott A. Sandage

#23. The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.

Oscar Isaac

#24. My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.

Joseph Pulitzer

#25. A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

William Cowper

#26. That all pretensions to being self-made hide the reciprocal truth, that we have unpayable debts to the world around us, to our community, to our forebears, to the ancients, to nature, to the gods.

Lewis Hyde

#27. A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

Al Goldstein

#28. There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go.

Tadao Ando

#29. We have big, big problems - flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing - I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties.

Frei Otto

#30. I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

Oscar Levant

#31. In my self-made seraglio, I was a radiant and robust Turk, deliberately, in the full consciousness of his freedom, postponing the moment of actually enjoying the youngest and frailest of his slaves.

Vladimir Nabokov

#32. I need to break down these self-made walls.

Tahereh Mafi

#33. Self-made men often worship their creator.

Bryant H. McGill

#34. A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

Christina Stead

#35. There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.

B.C. Forbes

#36. Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.

James Hillman

#37. Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

Ambrose Bierce

#38. There is no such thing in the world as a "self-made man" or a "self-made woman". We've received so much from so many for so long that we can't even keep count. But, simply because we can't keep count, doesn't mean we discount.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#39. His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

Margaret Atwood

#40. Confidence, just like success, is self made.

Sergey Shcherbatyuk

#41. Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.

Tara Brach

#42. As man is a being of self-made wealth, so he is a being of self-made soul.

Ayn Rand

#43. Man is emphatically self-made.

John Henry Newman

#44. It is better to be a self-made man,
filled up according to God's original pattern,
than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

J.G. Holland

#45. Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

Josh Billings

#46. Shadows in a cave are given to change. They dance and flicker with ever-changing shape and brightness. To contemplate the truly holy and to go beyond the surface of creaturely things, we need to get out of our self-made cave and walk in the glorious light of God's holiness.

R.C. Sproul

#47. No one is self-made

Gary Keller

#48. As Bonaparte would sigh centuries later, it takes very few defeats to unmake a self-made man.

Derek Leebaert

#49. I now realize there are millions of self-made millionaires who started with nothing. They dug inside themselves to find the answers and they succeeded. There is nothing anyone else can do that I can't do.

Dean Graziosi

#50. The truth is Canada is a cloud-cuckoo-land, an insufferably rich country governed by idiots, its self-made problems offering comic relief to the ills of the real world out there, where famine and racial strife and vandals in office are the unhappy rule.

Mordecai Richler

#51. My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

#52. Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.

Orison Swett Marden

#53. We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.

Kin Hubbard

#54. I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.

Eric Maisel

#55. Life is actually a self made web of fate.

Steven Redhead

#56. You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.

Greg Lake

#57. Leaders are not born or made - they are self made

Stephen Covey

#58. When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

Glenn Beck

#59. The only "break" anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made "break.

Napoleon Hill

#60. Albert Einstein had Max Talmud, his first mentor. It was Max who introduced a ten-year-old Einstein to key texts in math, science, and philosophy. Max took one meal a week with the Einstein family for six years while guiding young Albert. No one is self-made.

Gary Keller

#61. While many people are proud of being self-made, it only explains all the flaws.

Ron Brackin

#62. Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.

Thomas Keating

#63. Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.

Carlos Fuentes

#64. We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

Walter Brueggemann

#65. Believing you are a self made woman or man is a self inflicted egocentric fantasy.

Ben Tolosa

#66. I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

Tina Turner

#67. It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

Michael Hutchence

#68. If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn't happened because we, sadly, don't look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don't make such boundaries.

Ratan Tata

#69. I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good.

Michael Redhill

#70. Solitude that throws the honest rays of perfect euphoria;
Solitude that makes me breathe in the real me;
Solitude I call it - my abode, my self made haven;
Solitude I call it - the sanguine face of Loneliness.

Debatrayee Banerjee

#71. The self is a
self-made
Procrustean bed
of little comfort

Ulf Wolf

#72. Is there anyone more insufferable than a self-made man?" I heard Dr. Kimbrough ask. I

Robert Lee Hamady

#73. In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey Mantle. He had purchased the most coveted items auctioned by the Mantle family at Madison Square Garden in December 2003.

Jane Leavy

#74. I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

Frederick Douglass

#75. The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

Che Guevara

#76. We are all self made although it's usually only the successful that tell you so.

Robert Stone

#77. The better part of friendship might be holding one's tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage.

Barbara Kingsolver

#78. America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

Mark McKinnon

#79. This, the guilt, will be the hardest part for Galen. He already takes responsibility for so much that isn't his fault. He will somehow blame himself for Rachel's death. He will fall into a spiral of remorse, into a self-made pit of regret.
And I silently promise him to catch him when he does.

Anna Banks

#80. There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

George Matthew Adams

#81. Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint
being in the middle
usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude!

Javad Alizadeh

#82. Winners are not born, they are self-made.

Pat Summitt

#83. Your inner Belly Dancer ... is your inner sensuality, your highest feminity, your great esteemed self made more apparent.

Leandra J. Kalsy

#84. He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Joseph Heller

#85. There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

Joe R. Lansdale

#86. I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.

Donzella Michele Malone

#87. When you're a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.

Kirk Kerkorian

#88. We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

Darren Hardy

#89. A self-made martyr is a poor thing.

Ellen Glasgow

#90. I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.

August Wilson

#91. Hard labor jobs are a poor strategy for acquiring money, but they do garner respect. Self-made millionaires know getting rich has little to do with intelligence and everything to do with focus and persistence.

Steve Siebold

#92. He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And he could not stray far, or for long, from his self-made self.

Jim Thompson

#93. A disorienting change pleases no one yet it builds self made heroes.

Auliq Ice

#94. She's the latest freshest fruit of our great American evolution. She's the self-made girl!
( ... )
Well, to begin with, the self-made girl's a new feature. That, however, you know. In the second place she isn't self-made at all. We all help to make her, we take such an interest in her.

Henry James

#95. I often find these self-made men are inconsiderate. Very possibly that is why they amass such large fortunes.

Agatha Christie

#96. Immense self-made wealth is the evidence of a grandly rich mind

Julian Pencilliah

#97. Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

Joyce Brothers

#98. Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, cannot be made but only received.

Pope Benedict XVI

#99. I always thought Christians were the weak people. When you can't make it in life then you have to ask God. I really prided myself on being a self-made man.

Paul Henderson

#100. My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

Kevin Hart