Quotes About Self-reliance

I hope you know that about yourself, that you are perfect on your own. You have to make yourself whole—no one else can.

north. The stars had blazed low over the curving hills. Her father had dropped them off hungry, to make them hunt for their food. Sharpening a stick, she had waited in the rushes.

hope you know that about yourself, that you are perfect on your own. You have to make yourself whole—no one else can.

No me importa lo que puedan opinar. No tengo interés en verme como me ven los otros. Phillipa Gordon. Ana la de la isla.

If you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be left alone.

No use in trying to please everybody. No use in trying to please critics. Live under you own hat. Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember- pinewoods are just as real as pigsties, and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.

Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.

Die Logik muss für sich selber sorgen

Anything your reader can do for himself leave to him.

In the wild, he thought, there would be almost no waiting. Waiting was what happened to you when you lost control, when events were out of your hands or your freedom was taken from you; but in the wild there would always be trying. In the wild there must be trying and trying, he thought, and no waiting at all. Waiting was a position of dependency.

her own boss. When she thought about all that, was the

Tell me," said Miss Fuller, "who is behind a great woman?" She looked around our circle, then stopped at me. "That's right. No one. She has to get there by herself.

Tell me, who is behind a great woman? That's right. No one. She has to get there herself.

No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.

no problem can be solved until an individual assumes the responsibility for solving it.

My time was my responsibility. It was up to me and me alone to decide how I wanted to use and order my time.

Dependency is but one of the forms of behavior to which we incorrectly apply the word "love" when concern for spiritual evolution is absent.

Que as pernas também são pessoas, apenas inferiores aos braços, e valem de si mesmas, quando a cabeça não as rege por meio de idéias. As minhas chegaram ao pé do muro.

Believe in yourself; but do not always doubt others.

Sometimes we have to be left on our own to discover the uniqueness and strength that is ours.

It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward.

Don't depend on heaven for food, but on your own two hands carrying the load.

The fatalism of Russian peasant proverbs is contrasted with the self-reliance of Chinese ones by