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Quotes About Self-reliance

For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don't give up. Never have. Never will.
~ Jonah Lomu
All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.
~ Edward Bach
Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
~ Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
~ Thomas Sowell
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Don't let your life wait for other people.
~ Martin Niemoller
I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
~ Sally Ride
Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
~ Ann Richards
I now go beyond other people's fears and limitations. I create my life.
~ Louise Hay
Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that.
~ Haruki Murakami
I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.
~ Indira Gandhi
That's the best way to live your life: Don't listen to what other people think. Just follow your heart.
~ Chris Jericho
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
~ Immanuel Kant
Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.
~ Charlie Munger
The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves.
~ George Carlin
I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do.
~ Tony Stewart
It's always going to be easy to live like others or other's life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.
~ Anuj
If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!
~ B. R. Ambedkar
You are the only one who has to live your life.
~ David Viscott
I like to control my own personal life.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
It is imperative to base your life on yourself, to take responsibility for your own happiness.
~ Josei Toda
If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.
~ Charley Reese
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
~ Dag Hammarskjold