Quotes About Self-reliance

Murder me with bombs you poor lonely sod I will only build myself again and stronger. I am too stupid to know better I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself.

Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves.

People might talk, but minding them will not solve your problems. Thinking and then doing solves problems.

If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want.

Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?

Just because all your friends are doing it, doesn't mean you have to follow suit. Don't be a blind follower, you don't know where you're going.

If someone tells you that you can't do it, then prove to yourself that you can. You don't need somebody else's word for it, you just need yours.

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

Appreciate the things and people in your life while remaining independent of them. Give thanks for them, but realize that they do not complete you. Only you can complete you.

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. —Erica Jong

On land there was no choice. You conformed to the rigid structures others had left behind. But out there on the bay, it was different. Everything was fluid. Go here, go there. No signs, no narrow lanes, no walls, no paths worn into the water. Out there you were restricted only by the draft of your boat, your energy and will. Your imagination.

As Gates had told the pastor that day in his house. "I can do anything I put my mind to".

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

Look, you had it easier than me,' she says. 'You think Nana and Papa were busy supporting women's rights? No, they wanted me to meet a nice man and get married and cook and clean for him and give them grandchildren, and that's it. You were born into a world where feminism existed and was readily available to you. I had to acquire that knowledge. I didn't know I could be on my own.

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Yes… Obviously!" I replied. I'd just finished explaining to one of my mentors why it was so vitally important that I achieve a particular objective. "That means you don't understand where your security and well-being come from," he told me. "Your happiness, security and OK-ness don't come from outside you, so they're not vulnerable to anything outside you.

There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.

one who builds builds himself strong enough,shall not be attacked

Our own way is what our heart wants, and do not let others influence us.

You Don't Have to Worry About Trusting Other People — If You Trust Yourself

Be not a Follower, because of others want that, be always the Leader from Ourselves. Jan Jansen

We must Create Our own Path to Survive, so go Your Own straight Way with Peace and Happiness.

Everyone wants the sun let shine, and the neighbor's grass is always greener, so it is better to mow it ourselves.

cats." "A fellow named Robert Heinlein said, 'Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.