Quotes About Self-reliance

You cannot afford to allow your happiness to depend on any external situation. You must find the source of your happiness within you. Then nothing in the outside world will be able to remove your peace.

The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.

Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.

Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself.

Despite the difference in size between the girl and her assailants, it was looking as if she was not in need of any outside assistance.

I know how to run without you holding my hand!

They draw strength from being alone while they create or explore new worlds. They need that aloneness. They have developed the habit of mind to accept and seek out that aloneness. Sometimes, they must push back against their society to get what they need.

I've been dog rough, half blind and barking mad for years but you don't catch me going on about it.

man should be his own ideal and champion, however long it takes him to arrive there.

In this world, you shouldn't rely on help from anybody. In the end, a man stands alone.

Who's got two thumbs and is going to save the world?" she asked, then jerked both of her thumbs towards her smiling face. "This chick.

I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself, young lady. I have plenty of cartridges for my shotgun and this is a new pair of trousers. I'm ready.

Believe in yourself, blame yourself

Food exemplifies the difficulty of withdrawing from the modern economy, because you can't live without it and because not many people produce all of their own. And if its uncommon for a modern person to be food self-reliant, it is almost unheard of for a community to supply all of its own food.

It will be very hard. You'll make a million mistakes, and you'll pay for them all, one way or another. But the hard parts will be your parts, they won't be hard parts other people have imposed on you for their own reasons, or maybe for no reason at all. And your ownership of them – your responsibility to and for them – makes all the difference in the world.

Not the king of anyone else. I call my self a King because indeed I am a King of I myself only. -DeShawn Yeldell / MillYentei

Depend on no one else to give you what you want

There is no one but ourselves to blame for our problems: neither God nor any oppressors.

Knowledge is like a floating log of wood that helps us stay afloat in the ocean of misery. To find the shore, we have to kick our legs and swim. No one can do that for us,' said Hanuman.

As long as we seek validation from the world around us, we are entrapped by aham. As soon as we realize that all meaning comes from within, that it is we who make the world meaningful, we are liberated by atma.

Anyone can give advice, but a person cannot act, cannot do his karma, unless he is confident.

Knowledge is like a floating log of wood that helps us stay afloat in the ocean of misery. To find the shore, we have to kick our legs and swim. No one can do that for us.

Anything goes as one fends for oneself.

I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand.