Quotes About Self-reliance

Life don't come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain't nobody handing it to us.

You have a steady fella?" Sam asked after a bit. "No fella can hold me for long." Sam gave her a sideways glance. "That a challenge?" "No. A statement of fact.

She insisted on Knight for her last name. It made her feel strong and bold. A name of armor. For she would defend herself in this new life.

I'm tired of everyone deciding what's for my own good!

Margaret Fuller, the leading antebellum female intellectual, even went so far as to suggest that the anti-slavery party ought to plead for women's rights, too—because, like slaves, women were kept in bondage by civil law, custom, and patriarchal abuse.68 It was an emboldening insight. Elizabeth Cady, daughter of a prominent New York lawyer, had had fantasies when she was eleven years old of leading a life of scholarship and self-reliance.

At three I had learned the litany of despair and knew its truth with all my being: depend on no one.

No one will rescue you.

She had always enjoyed her sense of being alone, envisioning herself as a ball that rolled through life, bumping into other lives but not stopping.

hãy tá»± ??ng lên b?ng chính mình, hãy tin vào b?n n?ng và ??ng bao gi? bán ??ng chính mình.

I won't be talked around as if I'm invisible. This is my house, and let me remind all of you that I'm well over twenty-one. I'll go where I want, when I want. Let them make of that what they would! She hadn't lived with Aunt Ardith for nothing; Aunt Ardith would have died, just on principle, before she would have let a man tell her what to do.

She was independent by nature, but even the most independent person sometimes needed comfort

You were wonderful," Caleb said, giving Lily's bottom a little pat. "Like I said, if it weren't for me, you'd probably be dead." Caleb laughed and pulled her down onto his lap. "Probably so. You win, Lily. You were right to believe you knew how to take care of yourself, no matter what the circumstances." "Of course I was right," Lily said, unbuttoning her fancy shirtwaist, which was now dirty and speckled with blood. An

Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

Marile hot?râri trebuiesc luate de unul singur, în privinÈ›a asta nu pot fi de folos nici un maestru È™i nici o filozofie. În clipele de grea cump?n? omul nu mai poate face apel decât la propria raÈ›iune, la propria sa inim?, la propria sa persoan?.

You can go three minutes without air, three hours without shelter, three days without water, and three weeks without food.

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.