Quotes About Self-reliance

You choose the #life you live. If you don't like it, it's on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.

Don't worry what others are doing. Do you!

For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.

I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.

People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!

What they sell to the masses are the chains you must break if you are ever to be in control of your life.

You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.

I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.

A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie and Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life.

I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

"Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.

You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

Have a vision and then create your own reality. Otherwise, someone else may create it for you.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.

We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.

Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, "I'm not opening." That's a successful guy.

We're strong; We're very dedicated to what we do; We believe in ourselves; We go for what we want in life; We've made a mark in this world for ourselves.

Voyager upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And whate'er your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.

I have enough to last for the rest of my life.