Quotes About Self-reliance

Alis volat propiss. (She flies with her own wings.)

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

Jane Austen] knew that it was better to remain a spinster, with a limited income and no permanent home, than to marry without the deepest emotional attachment.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Every time we try and get it together, something happens to pull us apart, and I can't help but feel that this is just isn't meant to be. And God knows I'm happy enough on my own, but tell me, is this how am I supposed to carry on?

In other words, I am the Brunette Who Keeps Her Head.

She says she's too old to fight and too fat to run, so she just has to rely on her good nature to survive.

Don't live to please others. Don't think everyone else knows what's right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true to yourself. That way, no matter what else happens in life, you will always have your self-respect.

I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.

I don't want to spend my time rescuing you from awkward situations.

I can see that the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled.

I reckon that blaming people fixes nothing. You're the only person who is going to sort you out. No-one else really can - or really cares, enough. That's what Nepalis know - better than anyone. That's our Western disease. Don't take responsibility. Take on a lawyer!

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

Change will happen slowly, however, unless women refuse to submit to conventional practices and begin to trust their own bodies.

Abram's been working for me," she said, pulling free. She touched Sam's sleeve. "He's been building his own casket.

A writer must stand on the rock of her self and her judgment or be swept away by the tide or sink in the quaking earth: there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

a person doesn't demonstrate independence by rebelling. You do it by shouldering responsibilities, making wise, thoughtful decisions.

Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.

Never compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Don't compromise yourself - you are all you've got.

Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got.

My grandfather was sparing in his praise of apprentices. My grandfather insisted we think for ourselves and achieve for our own satisfaction. Deep study of the mysteries were their own tough path, he always said. To live for the approval of others was a pitfall that begged a false turning.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.