Quotes About Self-reliance

She wasn't running away from anything, she was running to what promised to be a new life; one that didn't include her husband Tim and the Valley Star.

Besides, I wouldn't even let the Hulk carry me off this ladder!

she had trained him to think she didn't need him.

You'll never get a marriage proposal if you have to rely on your needlework.

Pocos hombres pueden salir adelante sin una mujer, mientras que las mujeres no necesitamos tener a un hombre al lado.

Las haenyeo somos fuertes y nunca habíamos pedido ayuda para cargar peso.

There is no external refuge." Meaning, you cannot look into the outer world to feel safe, to feel at peace. You cannot look without for understanding, or for justice. You must look within. I

He's almost an adult. We have to save ourselves sometimes, Maggie. You should know that.

When prophecies give no help, men must find it themselves.

I have studied the race of men, Medwyn continued. I have seen that alone you stand as weak reeds by a lake. You must learn to help yourselves, that is true; but you must also learn to help one another.

I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

Henry glared at Anastasia. 'You quit planning on a rich husband, Anastasia. You're gonna get rich on your own. You and me, if we want husbands, fine. But we won't need them. Like our mothers. My mom could do just fine being a waitress, and your mom could do just fine being an artist. They got husbands 'cos they want them. That Bambie, now maybe she'll need a husband. But not you and me. Got it?

It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

To protect yourself, you must believe in yourself. Nothing will encourage that belief more than knowing you are prepared.

She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, There you go. -- Willing

If you were alone when you were born, alone when you were dying, really absolutely alone when you were dead, why learn to be alone in between? If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your own hand. Aloneness was the air in your tires, the wind in your hair. You didn't have to go looking for it with open arms. With open arms, you fell off the bike: I was drinking my wine too quickly.

She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, "There you go." She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush. Still

Let's make our own way,' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.

Remember, if you have a problem, it's your problem. Solve it. Don't blame other people. Don't burden people with your complaints. Ninety percent of the people you meet don't care about your troubles. The other 10 percent are glad you have them.

No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.

He is a fool who will descend into a well on another man's rope.

Some folks want the lights of cities, the admiration of women, and the fame that comes with success. Me, I just want the trail unwinding ahead of me, the view from the top of the ridge, and the smell of a wood-smoke fire.