Die or succeed is the motto. If you're the tough one, the oldest in the family, you have to stand on your own two feet. You can't sit by and watch your parents, your brothers suffer.


Mamadou Ba

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Sometimes you have step out of yourself and really watch what is going on in front of you like you a...
NERISSA IRVING
See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do ...
PAUL PALNIK
Personal power is the ability to stand on your own two feet with a smile on your face in the middle ...
J.Z. COLBY
No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet y...
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS
If your teacher, parents or boss is making your Life tough, that’s only because they want you to b...
HARRISH SAIRAMAN
Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the t...
CAT POWER
Die by your own sword. Live by your principles. ... If you forget what's important to you, you'll be...
MARILYN TAM
Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts.
GLYNIS JOHNS
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you ...
DR. SEUSS
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, w...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
If you want to know your goal , you need to seek and stand on the watch of God
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Everybody knows that if you come to Two Brothers on your birthday, you get the fishbowl.
BARRY FRIEDMAN
If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or ass...
ELLEN G. WHITE
Explain to your parents that it's time for you and your family to build your own traditions. Ask the...
ANITA F. FERNANDER
Work, Work and work, until you either succeed in your mission, or you die!
ABHIJIT NASKAR
If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.
ALAN COHEN
Relatives cannot help you in the studios," she says. "You stand or fall by your own efforts.
GLYNIS JOHNS
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your fe...
STEPHEN KING
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your fee...
STEPHEN KING
Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I’ve heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. B...
FROM THE FILM KILL YOUR DARLINGS
In one way or another, everybody has this experience in their lives... the moment when you have to d...
ALEX KURTZMAN
If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents
MARCELENE COX
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you ar...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you ar...
THOMAS PAINE
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you a...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE
Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t...
EMILY GIFFIN
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any d...
DR. SEUSS
No wonder prostitution is so rampant in China, I mused as I watched the four girls watch us: why sta...
TOM CARTER
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, w...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
The song is about leaving your home, your friends, your family, for the unknown. And about two diffe...
BRAD MANOSEVITZ
No matter how high and far your urine goes ahead of you, the last drop still falls under your feet. ...
THE INSPIRATIONIST
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON
Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nur...
OG MANDINO
Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nur...
OG MANDINO
Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? You
know, when the world suddenl...
KAREN MARIE MONING
There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I r...
BANANA YOSHIMOTO
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction y...
DR. SEUSS
Get on your feet or die.
PAUL HOFFMAN
Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father an...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
Families, by and large, like most groups, resist change. If one member of a family wants to move awa...
EDWARD M. HALLOWELL
When the whole world is against you and all you know seems lost. Know that God is right there standi...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chan...
LISA LING
If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.
MARCELENE COX
I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You c...
JESSE OWENS
I always loved running / it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You co...
JESSE OWENS
Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own childre...
BARRY MCCAFFREY
Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your ...
VERONICA ROTH
If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's noth...
JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS
If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one ...
LAURA WADE
We're a family. Now isn't the time to turn your back on people you spend so much time with. You woul...
JAMES THRASH
The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make y...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction y...
DR. SEUSS
It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community...
CAROLINE KENNEDY
You cant buy true Love and friendship from shop.You have to earn it by your own mind,heart,passion a...
SHUBHAM CHAVAN
Taking a stand for your own worth means surveying the clear worn path of the past and understanding ...
ELIZABETH VEGA
If you can just get in the playoffs and get by a match or two, I think you start to realize your dis...
BOB WEIR
If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wra...
HENRY ROLLINS
It’s your life—but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own stan...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
"Your personality was made from two other personalities (mother/father), so in one sense you were bo...
ED BULEY
You cant Realize Someone Good Is Coming Your Way, if still Remain Sleep on the Fact that they Actual...
DARREN L JACKSON
The idea behind 'Defending Your Life': Imagine if you had to sit in a courtroom and watch yo...
ALBERT BROOKS
I think when the time you meet your true love.. your other half.. that's the time both of you will d...
MJ CHRISTINE
It's difficult because you really don't have family, your parents, your siblings.
GRISELDA BETANCOURT
There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, yo...
DANIEL KEYS MORAN
First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that posi...
KRISTIN HUNTER
You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at ...
GAIL KELLY
Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you...
CAMPBELL SCOTT
You have the potential for greatness, don't stand in your own way...
N. S. COLE
Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the har...
DAPHNE OZ
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on th...
SUN TZU
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q...
MICHAEL KORDA
You two greatest assets are Health and Time. If you don't take care of your health, you will suffer....
LORRIN L. LEE
It is a dangerous thing with brothers, to think that you could be as strong as them, or as wise as t...
DAVID LEVITHAN
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees
EMILIANO ZAPATA
Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees
EMILIANO ZAPATA
Believe. Have faith. Don't stand in your own way. If you don't believe in yourself, a positive outco...
AKIROQ BROST
You begin to watch your contemporaries retire, and that's bound to make you think of your own situat...
GARY BUSBY
There is nothing better for your family than for you to be at your best, for you to be at your own p...
STEVE MARABOLI
Nobody is weirder than your own family, and I think teenagers feel that particularly acutely; the fa...
SIMON TEMPLEMAN
Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Don't let your convictions change because of the people around you. If you believe in something, sta...
POATE J MATAIRAVULA
If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on ...
ADAM CAROLLA
Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one bi...
DENIS LEARY
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
EMILIANO ZAPATA
Television is fast and loose. You have two or three takes to get your part right, and if you have a ...
JOHN HEARD
If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebo...
DANNY BONADUCE
In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant, ... One motto on the s...
STEPHEN COLBERT
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind...
JANE E. BRODY
That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than ...
URSULA HEGI
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your f...
GREGORY NUNN
If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your f...
GREGORY NUNN
Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on you...
MARGARET ATWOOD
If you have a problem in your job or business, you can quit and leave. But you can't quit your famil...
DAN ROTTENBERG
A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by ...
PAUL THEROUX

More Mamadou Ba