Quotes About Self-reliance

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don't have to.

It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.

You can't go down anybody else's [road]. It's your dream; it's your life. You don't have to be told by other people what to make of yourself. You decide.

You are the only one who can make it happen for you. Others can support and encourage you, but you have to find the energy within in order to step into the center of your own life and take charge.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

My hands are small, I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own And I am never broken

It's pointless to focus on others, as we can only control ourselves. I set a high bar and then it is my own private race. No one knows I'm winning or losing but me.

I was so lucky to be raised believing in some part of myself—believing that if I put my mind to something, I should be able to figure it out.

The hardest word for me to say is please. Being poor, you've sometimes got to ask for stuff - food, toothpaste, even soap. I don't want to ask anybody for anything.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Do I look like the kind of person who gives a ****

you are so dedicated to goals over which you have control, so oblivious to anything over which you don't have control, and so free of neediness that expectations shouldn't even enter into the equation.

It is absolutely imperative that you as a negotiator understand the importance of this point. You do NOT need this deal, because to be needy is to lose control and make bad decisions.

neediness can have—will have—a dramatic, always negative effect on their behavior. You must overcome any neediness at the negotiating table.

The serious negotiator understands that he or she cannot go out into the world spending emotional energy in the effort to be liked, to be smart, to be important.

And it seems I ought to scatter too. Perhaps at once. It's always better to turn your back on the gale than press your face against it.

The best solution to any problem lies within the skin of the person who rightfully owns the problem.

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.