Quotes About Self-reliance

A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.

You got nobody in this life to look out for you except yourself.

Miracles could become experiences that people, armed with right understanding, could summon themselves, for themselves.

God of the green pastures and the still waters, please don't help me. I want to do it by myself so that You'll know I've found something I can do for You ... I am David. Amen.

Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him...that could only be stupidity.

People...who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome

Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a canoe and heading for the hills or lakes. In my opinion, camping can be the greatest expression of free will, personal independence, innate ability, and resourcefulness possible today in our industrialized, urbanized existence. Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it.

Her pride had once been a mile wide. So fierce and strong that she'd thought she could survive on the trait alone. The constant ache in her belly, the desperation, Kenny's fate...all had shown her otherwise.

Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.

I had to live my life as I saw it.

accepting lifts is cheating and I cycled on.

Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?

Oh, all right, I say, I'll save myself.

She owns her own hunger.

I'm lost. And it's my own fault. It's about time I figured out that I can't ask people to keep me found.

N?ra nieko labiau slegian?io už palikim?, kai m?gini pakilti savo sparnais: tai blogiau negu virv? korimuisi.

Fond as [Naomi James] was of her faraway fiancé, another solo sailor, 'I'm a natural loner because as long as I know [my fiancé] is alive and well, I don't really worry about him. He has his life to live and I've got mine, and if I can survive then I'm sure he can.