Quotes About Self-reliance

Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

Tell me," replied Faria, "what has hindered you from knocking down your jailer with a piece of wood torn from your bedstead, dressing yourself in his clothes, and endeavoring to escape?" "Simply the fact that the idea never occurred to me," answered Dantes.

I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

Each man is forever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

Americans owe nothing to any man, they expect nothing from any man; they acquire the habit of always considering themselves as standing alone, and they are apt to imagine that their whole destiny is in their own hands. Thus democracy throws [a man] back forever upon himself alone, and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.

Whoever seeks anything from freedom but freedom itself is doomed to slavery.

When hereditary wealth, the privileges of rank, and the prerogatives of birth have ceased to be, and when every man derives his strength from himself alone, it becomes evident that the chief cause of disparity between the fortunes of men is the mind.

Far from helping students to develop into mature, self-reliant, self-motivated individuals, schools seem to do everything they can to keep youngsters in a state of chronic, almost infantile, dependency. The pervasive atmosphere of distrust, together with rules covering the most minute aspects of existence, teach students every day that they are not people of worth, and certainly not individuals capable of regulating their own behavior.

No pasa nada querido –susurro Gabby – No tengas miedo. Estas acostumbrado a arrebatar las cosas, eso es todo. Nadie te dio nunca nada»

You must own nothing but yourself.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

God helps those who help themselves.

a woman who could rescue herself was a woman who would never be in need.

But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes without someone getting in her business, informing her that everything she did was wrong. As if she didn't already know that.

Well, maybe that was fate. Maybe she was meant to be alone. She was a runner, and wasn't that the habit of a person who preferred to be on her own?

To hell with them," Fanny remarked. Had her sister learned nothing at the Starling School? Other people's judgments were meaningless unless you allowed them to mean something.

I'd thrown my fate away once, and I would never again allow other people's opinions rule my life. As a girl I'd done what was necessary, but I was a girl no longer.

I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.

Sara had told me that a woman who could rescue herself was a woman who would never be in need.

In books, no one helped a girl who didn't help herself and every fairy tale ended with the same lessons. Trick your enemy, do what you must, believe in enchantments, save yourself.

In every fairy tale the girl who is saved is the one who rescues herself.

You can tell just by looking at her that she never backed down or valued anyone's opinion above her own. She always believed that experience was not simply the best teacher, it was the only one