Quotes About Self-reliance

If you want to create wealth, it is imperative that you believe that you are at the steering wheel of life, especially your financial life.

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers

I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

You and you alone are responsible for taking actions to create the life of your dreams. Nobody else can (or will) do it for you.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.

This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else. . . .

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

I have to say, the coolest person I ever met in my whole life is John Mellencamp. I never met a person who was more secure about himself and his person.

I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know.