Quotes About Self-reliance

Cuando nadie cree en ti es cuando más necesitas creer en ti mismo.

If it's going to be, it's up to me.

who cares what others think when you know that what you are doing is the right thing to do.

Be the CEO of your life" ? Robin S. Sharma

que te abstengas de recurrir a una excusa y en su lugar te consideres a ti mismo el creador de tu vida, obtendrás el correspondiente aumento de la fuerza.

Blaming others is excusing yourself.

Do not rush to follow the crowd, it might be a funeral procession

Girls had to believe in everything but their own power, because if girls knew what they could do, imagine what they might.

Never be sorry, never be frightened, never be careful - those were the rules of Lacey. Play by the rules, win the game: Never be alone.

But even in the worst of such circumstances, people can't move forward if they just sit around feeling powerless and blaming others for their misery.

There is an expiry date for blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

There is, in the circumstances of modern life, only one solution to the problem of resentment, and that is social mobility. The worst thing that the state can do is to create those traps – the poverty trap, the welfare trap, the education trap – which deprive people of the motives and the skills to improve their lot, and retain them in a state of permanent discontented dependence on a world that they cannot fully enter. In

I decided that mankind could live better without gods. If I disposed of them all, people could start having can openers and cans to open again, and things like that, without fearing the wrath of Heaven. We've stepped on these poor fools enough. I wanted to give them a chance to be free, to build what they wanted.

One of the disadvantages of traveling alone is that when you fall there is none to assist you.

When there is no real hope we must mint our own. If the coin be counterfeit it still may be passed.

When there is no real hope we must mint our own

Rockefeller was sensitive about adults who behaved in a high-handed fashion toward him. Having assumed so much responsibility at home, he now thought of himself as a mature person.

The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves and to suffice for our own happiness.

The most perplexing issue for Rockefeller was how to square philanthropy with self-reliance.

His constant nightmare was that he would promote dependence, sapping the Protestant work ethic.

It was a lesson in self-reliance.

Shaped by a childhood of uncertainty, he aspired to be self-sufficient in business

Even as a teenager, Rockefeller demanded to be treated with adult dignity.

Comfortable with himself, he needed no outward validation of what he had accomplished.