Quotes About Self-reliance

Life is too short to let a man call the shots.

I'll teach you," Tiger Lily offered with a shrug of her shoulders. "Did your mother teach you?" he asked. "I don't have a mother," she said. "Like you." For some reason, Peter was glad to hear it.

We're all like children, Rikke. The older you get, the more you realise the grown-ups won't suddenly walk in and set things right. You want things right, you have to put 'em right yourself.

Coddling a body cheats 'em out of finding their own strength.

The chauffeuses . . . were manifestly ladies of the new school . . . not sitting in balconies, gazing at sympathetic stars and longing for the hero to return. No, indeed, they were following him in a motor car.

It is far better to be alone than to wish you were

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

He's not ambitious. He never knew what to do, so he wanted me to give him instructions for everything, big and small. I'm a fast walker, and he's slow. I thought I needed a husband, because that's what we were told as little girls, right? Or maybe not told but shown. It didn't occur to me that I might be better on my own. I was carrying him,

I want you to understand that there can't be information about you—that is true—that you don't already know. Your life takes place in your skin. No one else knows a goddamn thing, and the Internet is full of cowboys and sad people making stuff up.

I could be mad at you. I could scream at you. But I won't. You raised me to take care of myself, and I will.

right? But no. Don't hitchhike, the driver

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

But it is heartening to realize that God accomplishes his purposes despite our frailties, our little faith, our entrenched self-reliance.

The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.

This gander likes to do his own chasing, Madam Goose.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all of the time.

J'aime les gens qui prennent leur vie en main, moi ! Je n'aime pas les feignants qui se font plaindre.

I relied on what I wrote to build a bridge which could not be cut down. It was my own self in which I trusted, not seeing self as that last cell from which escape can only come too late.

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

The truck was its own driver, and that driver was a high-functioning paranoid.

Is that how humans are raised? Autonomous?

You couldn't help someone who didn't want help. That was a hard, and bitter, life lesson.