Quotes About Self-reliance

You know who is your savior? You! You're most qualified to save yourself. You know all your weaknesses. You know all your strengths. You are eminently qualified to save yourself. So get on with the business of saving yourself by recognizing the potential that you have within you. Understand. This is not a little thing.

In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness

the sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong. Now, I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing blind, deaf stone alone, with nothing to help you but your own hands and your own head...

Cool means being able to hang with yourself. All you have to ask yourself is 'Is there anybody I'm afraid of? Is there anybody who if I walked into a room and saw, I'd get nervous?' If not, then you're cool.

Remember: ....Of a good leader, when his work is done the people will say, WE DID THIS OUERSELVES!!

To live life at full throttle you have to believe in yourself.

Me dicas vriardâ de jorpoy, bus ne sino braco. (proverbe bohémien: Je suis habillée de laine, mais je ne suis pas mouton.)

Don't worry about the weather or the government.

Rather free in a foreign place than a slave back home

The person who is his own master cannot tolerate another boss. It's better to be without a book than to believe a book entirely. When economy goes south, people get political.

You've got to do your own growing, not matter how tall your grandfather was.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

Do not take roads traveled by the public.

Darkness simply requires another way of seeing. Be your own light.

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

Development of character consists solely in moving towards self-sufficiency.

The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.

You might not want to do it, but you can do it. In fact, a case could be made, if you can't do it, you don't deserve to eat pork.

What if, at the time of a panic attack, you could convince yourself to rely on that same unconscious to help you manage your body's sensations? I can guarantee that when you learn this skill you will be back in the driver's seat. You will no longer be letting panic have control, nor will you be forcing your conscious mind to do all the work.

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

I am perfectly well and happy here.... All I want is to be left alone to live my life as I wish and not as other people think best for themselves.

I'm sorry... but it's true?you can't live other people's lives for them. Go home and make something worth while of your own.