Quotes About Dependence

Your customer is anyone who depends on you, or who you depend on for success.

The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.

The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public--on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system.

I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.

I never will leave you, for I am sure I could not exist without you.

Il est mon maître et je suis son esclave; il a le droit de ne rien voir.

Chi ha compagno ha padrone—'He who has a partner has a master.

Indeed, to sacrifice seems as natural to man as to pray; the one indicates what he feels about himself, the other what he feels about God. The one means a felt need of propitiation, the other a felt sense of dependence.

The grandiose person is never really free; first, because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect

The grandiose person is never really free; first, because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.

The child's dependence on his or her parents' love also makes it impossible in later years to recognize these traumatizations, which often remain hidden behind the early idealization of the parents for the rest of the child's life.

Hold still, my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.

A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something.

And you are the girl's bitch, forever.

Knowledge is not necessarily enough to beat the nicotine trap.

only reason you ever thought it did was because each joint brought a little bit of relief from the craving caused by the one before.

it is interesting to note and also ironic that cigarettes only seem precious to us when we aren't smoking. When we are smoking, we take it for granted and we're barely even aware that we are doing it.

A smoker's reaction to any stressful situation is to light a cigarette.

Physically I was so low that I knew that if I didn't stop I would soon be dead, yet mentally I was so dependent on my 'crutch' that I was prepared to die rather than stop.

It was difficult to maintain any sense of superiority in the face of his utter dependence on other people.

In the end, no matter what they say, most folk want a path to follow. Someone to tell 'em it'll all be fine. Someone to tell 'em what to do.

It can be pleasant to have someone weak leaning on you. It can make you feel strong. But there comes a point when they become a dead weight to carry.

How dare you presume to be devoted to me, peasant? You're like a tick devoted to a tiger!

Loyalty on a mercenary is like armour on a swimmer.