Quotes About Self-reliance

Never get involved. That's my motto. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim. You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.

That's exactly what I'll do, I thought to myself. After dinner, I'm going to ask Big Brother to teach me how to read this map. With Aunt Baba still in Tianjin, there's obviously nobody looking out for me. I'll just have to find my own way.

I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

A kdo si zakládá domov, a? si za?izuje vše sám.

In meritocratic society, people are individuals before they are anything else: masters of their fates and captains of their souls.32

A practical girl never pines; she takes action.

I refuse to become a seeker for cures. Everything that has ever helped me has come through what already lay stored in me. Old things, diffuse, unnamed, lie strong across my heart. This is from where my strength comes, even when I miss my strength even when it turns on me like a violent master.

It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.

I don't want anyone to think I took this role in 'Downsizing' because it was the only role available to me. I'm not a passive participant in it.

People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control.

I used the same hand to pat my back and to pick me up when I get shattered after losing out on a film due to reasons except your credibility to that role.

I'm not the one to pat myself on the back or even need somebody else to give me credit, but I listen to a lot of Hip Hop now and I hear the Too $hort influence.

Everyone had their own machete. Because that's how you cut grass in Africa. There were no lawn mowers. We had to tend our own patches. I still feel as if I have got the blisters.

Follow your own path.

You won't ever get clarity in life. You have to overcome the hazy path yourself.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

Always follow your own path.

I've never been the sort of guy who wants to emulate this guy or that guy. I just try to forge my own path.