Quotes About Self-reliance

Only sheep need a Shepard.

Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you.

Don't beg anybody for anything, especially love.

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

Respect the gods and buddhas, but never rely on them.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

I am my own person caoable of making my own decisions and choosing powerfully how i live. I appreciate and respect what others have to say but ultimately I choose how I live my life.

The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that dependency starts with the government.

Me myself is enough to manage.

I earn my own respect, " I told Emilie. "I don't ride the coattails of someone else.

Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

qué nos hace creer que otro ser humano puede arreglarnos o absolvernos de nuestros actos negativos, nuestros errores y nuestros defectos de carácter?

America and fame: they are equally useful if you want freedom from your mother.

They can create their own expressions, and they can seek out the information they need, with substantially less dependence on the commercial mass media of the twentieth century.

Still, being alone doesn't mean you have to be miserable. In that sense it's different from losing something. You've still got yourself, even if you lose everything else. You've got to have faith in yourself and not get down just because you're on your own.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

Unhappiness and misfortune attend those who are voluntarily feeble