Quotes About Self-reliant

In the system of conservative moral categories, government regulation falls under interference with the pursuit of self-interest by people trying to make a living, people using their self-discipline to become self-reliant (and, if possible, rich). These are the good people in our society. We want to encourage people like them and it is wrong to put roadblocks in their way. The

I am a kind of stray cat, aren't I?

That's what's so wonderful about you, you're so self-sufficient that I feel that you've created your own self.

remind yourself that you are a very fulfilled person—stable, functional, and happy—with a career, friends, and hobbies, and that you are perfectly capable of living with or without him. You are not an empty vessel waiting for him to fill you up, support you, or give you a life. You are alive and enthusiastic, engaged in work and in living fully on your own.

I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.

I am a hard-working entrepreneur.

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

I'm just stupid and too headstrong.

I hate being helpless, and I hate having to ask people to do things for me.

I'm not high maintenance.

Thus, it is natural for liberals to see it as the function of the government to help people in need and hence to support social programs, while it is equally natural for conservatives to see the function of the government as requiring citizens to be self-disciplined and self-reliant and, therefore, to help themselves. This

To be honest, I have never had a 9-5 job where I worked for someone else.

Q: What do you call an ant that prefers to be alone? A: Independant.

He would hang out no signals, he would take notice of none.

My personal feeling is that Bernard Hopkins has never been an industry boy.

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way. I

You were always so willful, never sweet.

I have never been the type of person who has ever worried about what people think.

I was very much a tomboy. I've always been rather outspoken, headstrong, and I'm pretty much that way to this day.

I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.

I'm a bit of a tomboy.

I'm a tomboy myself and have always been incredibly athletic.

Imagine if you had to be completely self-sufficient (not just pretending, like Thoreau).