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Quotes About Self-reliance

The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.
~ Alan Cohen
Don't be so vain to think that you ruined me, that you wrecked me, destroyed me.I am the only one who has the power to do that.—Amanda Helm,
~ Amanda Helm
You can be all that you wish to be.The power is in your own hands.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Maybe it frightened them, to admit that a woman could be master of her fate.
~ Nenia Campbell, Black Beast
I did not need him to survive. He inspired me to find that strength in myself.
~ Chrissy Moon, Surreal Ecstasy
Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
God help those who do not help themselves.
~ Wilson Mizner
God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.
~ Girolamo Savonarola
If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
~ Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
~ Epicurus
Ask God's blessing on your work but don't ask him to do it for you.
~ Dame Flora Robson
God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.
~ Josiah G. Holland
A girl does not need anyone who does not need her.
~ Marilyn Monroe
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
~ Henry James
We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.
~ James Hollis
I am single and not looking to be in a relationship.
~ Chris Evans
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.
~ Socrates
Every pot must sit on its own bottom.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know.
~ Yoko Ono
If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you.
~ Gary Zukav
Learning how to make your own fun and discover things on your own is something that is applicable to any job, any relationship, any trip, any adventure in life.
~ Robin Hunicke
I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.
~ Alanis Morissette