Quotes About Self-reliance

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

Backpacking: An extended form of hiking in which people carry double the amount of gear they need for half the distance they planned to go in twice the time it should take.

The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes.

The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.

Now in Russia they got it mapped out, so that everyone pulls for everyone else: that's the theory, anyway. But what I know about is Texas. And, down here, you're on your own.

Put your future in good hands — your own.

Better one's own duty, [though] imperfect,Than another's duty well performed.

Don't go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself.

He who burns his bridges better be a damn good swimmer.

These, having not the law, are a law unto themselves.

What I like about camping is you can get really dirty. Either you're all by yourself, so no one else sees you, or everyone you're with is just as dirty as you are, so nobody cares.

Let me govern myself, and I cannot fail in my instinct which is to seek my good.

But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one's own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.

Say your thing and get out of here. And if they profit, that's fine, and if they don't, too bad!

But to depend on another psychologically—to depend on another emotionally—what does that imply? It means to depend on another human being for my happiness. Think about that. Because if you do, the next thing you will be doing, whether you're aware of it or not, is demanding that other people contribute to your happiness.

llegamos a la cuarta verdad, que te lleva a la inevitable conclusión de que ninguna cosa o persona que no seas tú tiene el poder de hacerte feliz o desdichado.

Anything can be lived around, so long as it's only you who has to do it.

A second birth," Maria Montessori called it, when a child can move away from his mother on his own. And indeed Owen does seem like a new child, rarely crying, constantly at work on getting himself somewhere else.

He slept there that night, without any of his guards.

A failure is not one who fails, a failure is one who blames others for their own failure.

You have to take responsibility for who you are

And you've never met me, so don't bother me with your condolences. I've got no use for them.

he had his gun and his wallet which, he decided, was all you really needed to get by in America.

When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.