Quotes About Self-reliance

I have no husband, sir. Nor am I eager to acquire one. From my observation, husbands tend to limit a woman's adventures.

Kita akan sanggup mengubah suatu kebudayaan dengan cara memberikan para perempuan anak bangsa alat yang tepat untuk tumbuh terdidik agar mereka dapat menolong diri sendiri. (Amartya Sen)

Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

No one can make you a victim but yourself.

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.

Man muss sich im Leben auch mal selbst ans Steuer wagen, statt immer nur Passagier zu bleiben

Au bout de tant d'années passées parmi les vêtements-Blancs, il avait réussi à se bâtir une solitude, cette chère et irremplaçable solitude dont il s'enveloppait comme d'une cotte de mailles. La partager, c'était la perdre. Chaque fois qu'il en avait le loisir, il aimait à retrouver son discret repaire, seul, sans un autre compagnon que lui même. Pourquoi encombrer ses oreilles d'un bourdonnement humain?

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

He leaned down & he said, Michael, I will tell you honestly because you've been honest with me, that what you want is a holy human right, and you shouldn't just give it up. I humored him. I said, What right, Harry? The right to feel the burden of carrying your own life. Just you and your family and your boat. No crutches, no excuses.

Who is the forgotten man...? I know him as intimately as my own undershirt. He is the fellow that is trying to get along without public relief... In the meantime the taxpayers go on supporting many that would not work if they had jobs.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

My father quoted everyone, from Shakespeare to Emerson, on the subject of destiny, and then he'd point out that except for the Greeks, everyone agreed: The stars do fuck-all for us; you must make your own way.

The army don't teach enlisted men how to fly," I said, trying to hold onto my dignity. "We gotta do that for ourselves.

I'm starting to think being a grown-up isn't going to school or even paying your own rent. It's learning to fake it when you got no other choice.

He journeyed, in this climax, from the boy who was afraid to need, to the man who trusted he could.

Walter, when the fucking trousers are dry, if you give me a fucking needle and thread, I will fucking sew the hell out of them.

HE LITERALLY had to make every damned out himself.

Alongside the need to be coupled is an equally compelling need to be left utterly alone.

What I'm trying to say is, you can't wait for somebody else to decide whether you get another chance. What if nobody ever does?

and Bessie for offering. But we've done just fine standing up for

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.