Quotes About Self-reliance

I'm the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.

Don't let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

Knowing that every single day is so filled with potential - you cannot wait for life to give you anything. You have no right to feel entitled. You are not entitled to anything.

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.

A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.

We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

You get to the point where you decide that you don't want to be a victim anymore and that you're not going to live your life like that.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

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

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. --Steelmind

I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy.

On Hollywood turning its back on him: I wasn't in the club. You see, I'm not going to be a stroker. I never have been all my life.

Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!