Top 10 Self Made Quotes

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

Opportunity, Important, Self Made

Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.338, Hackett Publishing

Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.

Self Made, Made, Chains

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

Michael Moorcock

Fate, People, Self Made

I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word

Laverne Cox

Self, Self Made, Made

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.

Alexandra Fuller

Mother, Tough, Self Made