Quotes About Self-reliance

You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.

We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.

Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.

Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day.

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

I am master of my own destiny, and I can make my life anything that I wish it to be.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, "Oh my God they have this, I want that."

Until you take charge of your own life, things don't happen.

Never let a boy be your life. They can live in your world, but never make a guy your world.

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.

Self-help is the best help

I don't feel threatened. You can live your life being scared of losing someone and, at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you and that's it.

I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was.

The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.

Don't mind what people say to you, find out what you have in yourself and do your best, that is the only hope in life

To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

I'm single. I had to make a few changes in my life.

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.