Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts. Glynis Johns
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. J. K. Rowling
One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts. Joseph Prince