Quotes About Self-reliance

I am the daughter of myself. I am born of my own dream. My dream sustains me.

Man is already weak at the moment he searches for laws and rules according to which he shall think and act. Out of his own being the strong individual controls his way of thinking and doing.

I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

if I want a crown I must go and hunt it for myself.

When the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs . . . If you can wait and not be tired by waiting . . . If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim . . . If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.

There's no good in moping girl, there's work to be done... Have you forgotten, nobody likes a person who feels sorry for herself.

And leave me alone when I tell ya to. I will have things to do that are private. I cannot always have you trailing around with me like a strand of goose grass.

that you don't suffer because of someone else. There's never anyone but

You might be a chicken or a human being, but show a little rebelliousness and the next thing you knew you were all on your own.

My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.

man who lives under his own supervision, alone in the whole world

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God. — Søren Kierkegaard

Genius was being born in her, filling the empty spaces in her bed, her heart, her womb. She needed no-one but herself.

In the end, everyone can do without fathers

orphans know that their survival requires them to be prepared to do whatever is necessary. That there are no limits.

Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.

I have nothing to prove to anyone. I only play for myself.

I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.

Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!