Quotes About Self-reliance

In summation, if someone feels the psychological need to hold court, that's his business. Your job is to mind your business. Don't allow yourself to be intimidated by someone else's knowledge—or apparent knowledge. What another person knows or doesn't know will not affect your success one way or another, so from your standpoint it's an irrelevancy

I don't want to stand on the shoulders of giants." He paused, then lifted his own shoulders a little, as if acknowledging that he was giving voice to the sort of thought rarely spoken aloud. "I want to be a giant.

Of course, it is very difficult, and often impossible, for someone else to give you what you cannot find in yourself.

I used to say to myself that happiness and misery depend on ourselves. If you feel unhappy, rise above it and act so that your happiness may be independent of all outside events.

it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

As he later explained to Monuments Man Bernie Taper over drinks in a Berlin apartment, 'There's one good things about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.

There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.

We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to make any changes to it's blue prints.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

Here was a man who had not gone along with the crowd. He was a man who did his own thinking and detested the words, "We have to do it this way because that's the way everyone else does it." He also hated the word "can't." If you wanted him to do something, just say, "I don't think you can do it.

Without that knowledge, the world pushes you around.

Be smart and you won't be pushed around as much.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."104

Se aburren quienes se pasan la vida esperando que algo los estimule desde fuera...

Being alone makes us stronger. That's the honest truth. But it's cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

My father... raised me to make up my own mind. The way he did this was by yielding to me when I asked, even when I was foolish. I lived through it; and I know my own mind; and he will do what I ask him.

It was blissful, spending time with someone who would leave you alone. I loved him for it. And I was happy to repay in kind. It had never occurred to me that leaving someone alone could harden into a habit that could become a barrier.

La baza tuturor eforturilor noastre de a transforma pe cineva st? un motiv egoist, convingerea c? dac? el se schimb?, vom fi fericite. E foarte bine s?-Å£i doreÅŸti s? fii fericit, dar s? plasezi sursa acestei fericiri în afara sinelui t?u, în mâinile altcuiva, înseamn? s? eviÅ£i capacitatea ÅŸi responsabilitatea de a-Å£i schimba viaÅ£a în bine

Oricât de proÅŸti cârpaci am fi în ale vieÅ£ii, fiecare simte nevoia s? deÅ£in? singur controlul propriei existenÅ£e. Când cineva ne ajut?, ne irit? puterea ÅŸi superioritatea acelei persoane implicate în ajutorul dat.

Run your own race.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. —ALICE WALKER

blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself.