Quotes About Self-reliance

No one can trust you until you can trust yourself.

Always act like you are the king of your own world that you created on the day of your birth. Enjoy your kingdom.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.

You can rely on a steady paycheck every two weeks building another persons business or you can generate income on a daily basis building your own. I chose the latter of the two options.

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

Know inside yourself that you're strong. It's the only weapon that matters, and no one can teach that to you.

You have to be enough for yourself, Maddie. No one else can do it.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

We heed no instincts but our own.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

On se moque des diseurs de bonne aventure. Il faut sinon se moquer, en tout cas se méfier des bâtisseurs d'avenir. Surtout quand pour bâtir l'avenir des hommes à naître, ils ont besoin de faire mourir les hommes vivants. L'homme n'est la matière première que de sa propre vie. Je refuse d'obéir.

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

She had learned not to expect love, and wasn't even sure she wanted it. This was the most profound wisdom she'd managed to glean from the fifteen years she had spent in her mother's presence.

What happened to perfectly capable kids who'd been so bombarded with help that they felt helpless to do anything on their own? Or the kids who'd been so driven at home, they'd never had to find their own drive? It couldn't be good, she thought.

The best way to keep from being a victim is to write your own terms." It