Quotes About Self-reliance

This is making me crazy. I hate relying on other people to save me, I hate being clingy, I hate it, and every time you show up, I lean on you. - Matilda Scarlet Veronica Betty Vilma Goodnight

If you wait for someone else to make things better, you'll be waiting a very long time

But here, surrounded by friends who wanted her, she recognized for the first time that there was only one voice that truly mattered. Only one she had to listen to. Her own.

Headstrong is just a word--a word others call you when you don't do what they want.

They can tell you everything you're not but they can't make you believe it.- only you can do that.

You're not a whore. You're a chick who hasn't exactly grown up with every advantage, and you've learned to use what you've got. You don't do it on purpose. It's second nature. You act girly and helpless and make men think you're harmless.

My point is, screw the machines. Throw them away. Put some faith in that brain of yours. My brain can't make a phone call. Sure it can. You can talk to anyone you want.

Listen to me, Sasha," he said. "You can do it alone. But it's going to be so much harder.

In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.

Listen to me, Sasha, he said. You can do it alone. But it's going to be so much harder.

No one leaped to his feet to rescue her. I think we all knew Grace well enough to understand that she would prefer to rescue herself from this predicament, and we were right.

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.

The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.

Nothing hurts you unless you let it.

If one thing was perfectly, crystalline clear, it was that I could take care of myself. I just kept coming and coming and coming. I was what I was.

At that point in time, there were three things in life that I knew for certain: (1) I was a girl who'd never met a site she couldn't hack or a code she couldn't break, (2) I had a roundhouse that could put a grown man in the hospital, and (3) I would without question chop off my own hands before I'd come within five feet of a pom-pom

I've found duct tape more effective than advice, myself.

The trick of being abandoned was never to let yourself long for anyone who left

Vanaf nu ben je volwassen.' Alisa leek behoorlijk tevreden met zichzelf. 'Nu kun je je eigen testament opstellen.

They seem to believe that, left to my own devices, I might do something ill-advised,

I stared at him--through the night, through the space between us. He looked away first. I was used to people walking away. I was good at not expecting anything from anyone.

When I saw a problem, I solved it. I wouldn't stay powerless for long.

Eve reached out to stop me before I could. "Could I do this part alone?