Quotes About Self-reliance

Let me remind you that the measure of anyone's freedom is what he can do without.

Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.

We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them, not what we get out.

Freedom and independence were all very well, but one should not be a little fool.

I believe in a girl being fitted to earn her own living whether she ever has to or not. You'll

Some women's intended from the start to be old maids, and I'm afraid I'm one of them, Miss Shirley, ma'am, because I've awful little patience with the men.

Well, I should like to see you go to college, Anne, but if you never do, don't grow discontented about it. We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... college can only help us do it more easily.

If you please, Great-Aunt Nancy, said Emily deliberately, I don't like to be told I look like other people. I look just like myself.

Well, I don't want to be any one but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life.

I believe in a girl being fitted to earn her own living whether she ever has to or not. You'll

As for Barney Snaith, the only crime he has been guilty of is living to himself and minding his own business. He can, it seems, get along without you. Which is an unpardonable sin, of course, in your little snobocracy.

I am no bird, and no net ensnares me.

Bana belli etmedikleri müddetçe insanlar?n hakk?mda ne düÅŸündükleri hiç umurumda deÄŸil.

We make our own lives wherever we are, after all .

Fakat hayaller diyar?nda dolaÅŸaca?? zaman oraya tek ba??na gitmesi gerektiÄŸini uzun zaman önce öÄŸrenmiÅŸti. Oraya giden yol, en sevdiÄŸi arkada??n?n bile Anne'i takip edemeyeceÄŸi, büyülü bir yoldu.

Not that I bother much with dress myself. Women just dress to please the men, and I'd never stoop to that . I have had a real placid, comfortable life, dearie, and it's just because I never cared a cent what the men thought.

I've learned how to take out my own stitches: all you need is a pair of fingernail clippers & a strong stomach.

If people are saying you shouldn't attack, they aren't thinking what's best for you.

You don't look strong enough to trouble nobody around here.... We grow our own troubles--it would be a novelty to have some we ain't already used to.

But as far as trusting the general run of men, there was no need, since she had no intention of ever expecting anything from one of them again.

That in itself didn't bother her, though. If there was one thing she didn't need to do, it was to talk to a man.

What we done wrong the first time was doing it honest. I'm through with honest. It's every man for himself in this country, and that's the way I like it. There ain't much law and mostly it can be outrun.

I ain't kin to nobody in this world. I don't want to be. I won't be.

I think that of the three of us, I alone have no food supply, said the kzin.