Quotes About Self-reliance

I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.

She looked the same, looked just like anyone, but she saw the world differently after that. To be a physically powerful woman—it was something. You could go anywhere, do anything, if you were difficult to hurt.

So I was a monster, she thought. At least I wasn't someone's little sister, someone's girlfriend, some sophomore, some girl—someone whose opinions don't matter.

I flinch. "Don't feel sorry for me, okay? Not ever. It makes my skin crawl.

I am not someone to pity, with an unstable mind and weird pain syndromes. I am taking charge of my life. I live according to my principles. I take action and make sacrifices.

She refused, over and over, to give any single person her devotion, preferring instead to make a home for herself that she defined on her own terms, and of which she was master.

I don't care what you think, so it's perfectly ok.

You look down on me, but I'm the strong one, I'm the strong one here. Do you see, Immie? Do you see?

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

I would rather go up to heaven by myself than be pushed by cherubs:

Some of these proverbs sound as if they come from Scripture (and many people believe they do), like this one: 'God helps those who help themselves'-which is likely anti-biblical. God helps those who rely on him.

Western societies are, by and large, individualistic societies. The most important entity in an individualistic culture is the individual person.

I don't want your patronage. I don't want your tea. I was quite happy. What do you want to unsettle me for?

independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means

She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim

don't worry. Worry brings fear, and fear is crippling. The only thing that could cause worry during this test is trying to do it all yourself. Know that all you have to do is to hold your goal before you. Everything else will take care of itself. Remember also to keep calm and cheerful. Don't let petty things annoy you and get you off course.

George Bernard Shaw said: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw said: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." Well,

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

Kad?nda zaman geçmez. Sak?n günün birinde iyile?mek için zamana güvenme.

You shouldn't dwell on it," Mrs. Jaks had said. "Forgive him and you'll live without his shadow on your lives." "The world is hard," his mom had said. "You need to be harder.

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.