Quotes About Self-reliant

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

I'm my own brand. I don't need anyone, there's no point denying it!

a completely different kind of woman leading a completely different life, who seemed to make her own rules with no apologies.

but I am the sort of person who does not seem to need the day-to-day emotional support provided by normal civilized social contact.

I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference.

Is our rational and self-reliant generation really supposed to accept the idea that God the Almighty not only created the universe but, interestingly enough, also has a stake in our lives?

I'm not an unkind person, but by the same token, I'm not a people-pleaser.

I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type.

Don't have a mother," he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons. J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

I was a very unpredictable child. I'd pack a bag and go off and do a hike in the mountains for 10 days.

I'm not beholden to one party or any special interests.

I'm a one-man band!

I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.

MY FATHER was a brilliant man, a true iconoclast, fiercely self-reliant, a dark genius, cruel, selfish, and eternally optimistic. Early in his sales career, a boss called him an "independent son of a bitch," which Dad took as the highest compliment he'd ever received. He wanted me to be the same way. Dad had no hobbies, no distractive activities. He didn't do household chores, wash the car

Let every American become steeled against coddling. Americans ought to resent coddling. It is a drug. Stand up and stand out; let weaklings take charity.

I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in a place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.

I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

I don't like asking people for things, so if I can do it myself, that's the mindset I have. My dad is very much a do-it-yourself kind of person, so I had a strong sense of independence.

I have a feisty side to me and I love playing the strong women.

He's as independent as a hog on ice.

You 're too sufficient by yourself...too inside yourself

I'm no longer a child, and I don't need comfort.