Quotes About Self-reliance

The sweet feeling is knowing that nobody gave me anything for free.

I'm such a strong-headed person and so stubborn, I don't need someone to be sweet to me.

You want to be in control of a lot. You grow up. You sink or swim. I suppose I swam.

In this game, you're on your own. You either sink or swim.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.

I've got to go out there and do a job and focus on swimming and do my own thing, and I think us athletes can go out there and perform no matter what... This is what we train to do.

An awesome thing about starting your own business? There's no one there to tell you what to do! But that, you might quickly discover, is a double-edged sword. If you're not careful, you won't shower for four days straight, and you'll spend half your time researching 'girly, stylish office' on Pinterest instead of getting any real work done.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

I had a horrifying experience but what the world fails to understand is that the handicapped need no sympathy, they need to be encouraged in whatever they do.

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

I wasn't a person to cry or point fingers or find any sympathy.

I'm not a person who lives for sympathy.

Everything isn't about synergy.

At the end of the day, I want to be my own person, I want to be my own performer, and I want to have a finisher that's synonymous with me and not with my mentor.

Agriculture is the backbone of the livelihood security system of nearly 700 million people in the country and we need to build our food security on the foundation of home grown food.

Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!

If you lived on cabbage, you would not be obliged to flatter the powerful." The young man promptly replied, "If you flattered the powerful, you would not be obliged to live on cabbage.

I left home because I was hungry.

It's perfectly acceptable to survive, even if others didn't.

Siempre he considerado un acto miserable mendigar la vida como un favor. O se vive como uno desea, o es mejor no seguir viviendo

For it depended entirely on me as to whether the myth of the mountain was to be transformed and the path found between the supernatural and reality. It was in me that all expectations were vested.

What gives me strength is the feeling of being independent. In effect, I'm really just a dilettante. I've lived, explored, and worked - but only in nonjobs. I've often achieved success against all the predictions. And I've done it by following a very simple pattern of behavior: stick at it and do everything in my power to make it happen.

I would rather be ostracized than assimilated! I read recently that my greatest accomplishment was my unerring ability to make myself unpopular.