Quotes About Self-reliance

No one has power over our principles, and what other people do control we don't care about.

endurance of labour, and to want little, and to work with my own hands, and not to meddle with other people's affairs, and not to be ready to listen to slander.

Working within our sphere of control, we are naturally free, independent, and strong. Beyond that sphere, we are weak, limited, and dependent.

Where are you going to find serenity and independence – in something free, or something enslaved?

When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval.

If you wish to be free, do not desire anything that depends on another, lest you make them your master.

Since I can get greatness of soul and nobility from myself, why should I look to get a farm, or money, or some office, from you? I will not be so insensible of what I already own.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Make the best use of what's in your power and take the rest as it happens (Epictetus)

Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.

And then I'm gonna step right into the wilderness. Just live on berries and shit. Not bother anybody. Not hurt anything. Something I have to do, man.

A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals.

But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.

A person's not free if their freedom has to be given.

At thirty-nine, I learned how to change a tyre, how to shovel snow, how to stack wood. I learned how to meet a deadline without a shoulder to whine on. I became obsessed with firewood. If only there was alsways a fire in the fireplace, I knew that everything would be all right. (Prometheus must have been a women. I reverted to my ancient nature: inventing fire all day, having my liver plucked out all night.)

You're afraid he'll leave you and you'll fall apart. You don't know that you can get along without him and you're afraid to find out because then your whole potty theory will come tumbling down. You'll have to stop thinking of yourself as weak and dependent and you hate that.

The greatest freedom I have now is that I no longer believe that anyone else can save my life. --Erica Jong, quoted by bell hooks in Communion The Female Search for Love

PoÈ›i suferi de singur?tate chiar fiind în mijlocul alor t?i? Asta-i soarta omului care gândeÈ™te cu capul lui.

Freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.

Today I, tomorrow you. But this need of help does not mean that the one is helpless, the other powerful. Helplesness is a transitory condition; the ability to stand and walk on one's own feet is the permanent and common one

They were more free, but they were more alone.

no man must be the means for the ends of another man.

When you are small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead.

When you're small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead.

I have no particular desire for a man's guidance. And if you think it will be your duty to guide me after we are wed, then you had better reconsider your role as a husband.