Quotes About Self-reliance

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

I was born alone and I will die alone. I've got to do what's right for me and not live my life the way anybody else wants it.

You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: "I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Don't thank anyone for what you should already have.

All we ask is to be left alone.

She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.

Many people who have the Dependence lifetrap also have the Abandonment lifetrap. In fact, it is difficult to imagine a person having the Dependence lifetrap and not having the Abandonment lifetrap. People who have the Dependence lifetrap believe that they cannot survive alone. They need a strong figure to guide and direct them through the activities of day-to-day life. They need help. Abby is an example of a person who has both lifetraps.

Christine is too independent. No matter how anxious she feels, she forces herself to face things alone. This tendency to go to the other extreme—to act as though she does not need anybody for anything—is called counterdependence, and is a strong indication of the presence of the Dependence lifetrap.

You feel like all you can get is what other people deign to give you. You don't go after what you want.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.