Quotes About Self-reliance

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

Protect him, yes, with my life; spare him of learning responsibility and to take care of himself, no. During

El mundo hay que fabricárselo uno mismo, hay que crear peldaños que te suban, que te saquen del pozo. Hay que inventar la vida porque acaba siendo verdad

Each individual should be able to make good decisions without peer preassure.

We are almost always the craftsman of our own unhappiness.

Por qué buscas la compañía en tus momentos de degradación? Vuélvete adicto de los vicios solitarios.

I've internalized my father- his impatience, his perfectionism, his rage. I no longer need my father to torture me. From this day on, I can do it all by myself.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'

Okay, listen, I don't know what dumb lines you are used to giving girls so they fall all over you but I just want you to know that I wasn't born yesterday so I am gonna go now and leave you to whatever dumb idiot girl is gonna buy that line.

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

He was a monk in an order of one.

I'll go live in the woods," said Malone. "You'll be lonely," said Sutherland. "Even Thoreau went to town in the afternoon to gossip.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.

I used to sleep in the desert once every week, now it is every two weeks, most of the time alone. It's beautiful. What I enjoy is taking my food and cooking for myself.

I would be at horse shows by myself for weeks, and I had to make sure I was on my game at all times.

I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.

Don't weep for me; don't write any sob stories.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Things don't weigh me down any more. I confront things, and I move on. I don't dwell on things; I don't let things simmer under the surface. I am where it starts and where it ends. I have the power in my life to be happy.