Quotes About Self-reliance

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

We're trying to break yokes. You're trying to make one for yourself.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!

Most people, Kant continues, are too lazy to think for themselves. They allow guardians of various kinds to think for them, and the guardians are only too happy to take control

No one is coming to save you. You're the only one left for this assignment.

In short, remember that compliments are worthless and people's approval doesn't make your business better.

I hate when people question my ability to get from one place to another without mutilating myself. It's tantamount to saying, "Try to get home without screwing it up like last time, dummy," or "Farewell, for I may never see you again, given the mortality that awaits us all like a crouching panther.

some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.

Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.

you cannot please everyone, so why please anyone at all?

Many of these mothers raised their daughters to not need a man. At

Decisions are now made by one individual, rather than by a committee. He no longer has to mind read, predict, or try to please multiple voices with conflicting agendas. When putting himself first all the information he needs to make a decision is within him: "Is this what I want? Yes. Then that's what I'll do.

Emerson put the development of the individual, rather than service to society, at the heart of his educational vision.

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Orders make you stupid, the captain told me, figure it out for yourself.

As an old adage advises, "If you really want to get something done, you've got three options: do it yourself, pay top dollar, or forbid your teenagers to do it.

Robert Baden-Powell

I was living in the cheapest of all paper houses, living as the Japanese themselves do, on a handful of rice, and learning by experience how very little it requires to keep body and soul together.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent — that it does not have to be recognized by others.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.