Quotes About Self-reliance

Whatever you do, don't ever use a crutch, and don't ever think of having an excuse for not having said, 'Yeah, I did my best.'

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

People are always telling me that i'm not like other girls...that i dont dress like other girls...that i dont act like other girls. But i'm my OWN person...i go to the beat of my own drum.

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

People are able because they think they're able

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Ladies, first and foremost: you're on your own. No more rules neatly laid out for you to follow. You have to make up YOUR OWN rules.

You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me.

Someone else's action should not determine your response.