Quotes About Self-reliance

Life becomes easier when we stop aping people. Which is on all fronts, be it looks, body shape, or anything.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

All this could go tomorrow, and I would still know how to function, because I never had nothing before. I went through the struggle - it was a rough life.

I prefer building rather than fundraising.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

All that I do is right—for me. I make it so by doing it. Do you think that I am conquered by the laws that other women crouch and whine before, because they dare not break them, though they long to do so? I am my own law—and the law of some others.

She had never been taught to ask permission to do things, and she knew nothing at all about authority, so she would not have thought it necessary to ask Mrs. Medlock if she might walk about the house, even if she had seen her.

Las dos peores cosas que le pueden suceder a un niño es no salirse nunca con al suya, o salirse siempre con ella. Susan Sowerby

and felt it as well to make his own freedom from responsibility quite clear without any delay.

I am my own law–and the law of some others.

One pleasure of being old, I realize, is that you're free. Beyond caring what the neighbors might think.

Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.

Maybe he was real. Maybe I'd made him up. Either way, he didn't think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right.

I am not a hero, I am not Odysseus, there are no gods or goddesses guiding me. All I have is myself. And Hex's sword.

It probably all boils down to three magic words: I don't care. And nobody can make me.

Õppetund oli pikk ja ränk olnud, kuid ta oli õppust võtnud. Kui sa ise ei mõtle, peavad teised sinu eest mõtlema, ja need teised röövivad sult jõu, tõmbavad su liistule, pööravad sulle loomult omased maitsed pea peale, ohjeldavad sind ja muudavad steriilseks.

You do not beg the sun for mercy. -Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary

We've lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

Who asks for justice? We make our own justice.

Sloboda može bit vrlo samotno stanje.

The bottom line of the Dune trilogy is: beware of heroes. Much better [to] rely on your own judgment, and your own mistakes.

Freedom is a lonely state.

Özgürlük bir yaln?zl?k halidir.