Quotes About Self-reliance

Always stay in your own movie.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

I am in charge. I take my own power back.

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.

If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.

Don't give up your power.

Don't give your power away to anybody. If you find something to do that you truly love, you'll be successful.

If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.

What matters most is recognition that 'I have my own will. I have my own agency. I have the power within myself to control what I do.'

Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.

A woman who knows her power has in her hands the key to her own happiness and success.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

...some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.

Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.

All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.

If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you... Peace and love will get you killed. That doesn't sound like a hippie.

If each of us could help one orphan to build his/her capacity, and academic background rather than giving them money or food, then no family will sufferer without guardian.

If people aren't on board with your dreams, there is still that one man canoe. Sail on and slay on with it.