Quotes About Self-reliance

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom.

Tennis is the loneliest sport

Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don't do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don't say it—or written something as well as you, don't write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.

Why do I feel this alone? Basically, because I've always been alone. I've always been alone. And alone I'll be. It's about time I become aware of it and never forget it.

One doesn't need a lot to be able to live. The great thing is to be free in your work. Ofcourse it's important to print or exhibit, but if that's not possible you are still left with the most important thing of all -- being able to work without asking anybody's permission.

A Pragmatic Programmer takes charge of his or her own career, and isn't afraid to admit ignorance or error.

Don't blame someone or something else, or make up an excuse. Don't blame all the problems on a vendor, a programming language, management, or your coworkers.

Nothing tastes better than what one eats by oneself.

Have you met someone?" "Me? I think maybe I'll go it on my own. Maybe I'm better that way. Maybe I was always better that way and it was just that when I was young, I was so scared, and now I'm not scared.

For almost all of human history, tools were quite limited. They weren't everywhere; they were in specific places. Tools were in the field (agricultural tools) or in the kitchen (cooking tools) or in the toolshed (work tools). And while tools helped us do our work, they didn't work on their own. The dream of a tool that would work by itself was strictly the stuff of magic or fantasy—the sorcerer's apprentice's dream of a broom that would clean up by itself.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do than survive.

Most of us have everything we need to get through a crisis; we just have to tap into it.

She didn't want to be an out-and-out character any more than she wanted to be one of the herd, so Beth beat herself a path between the two.

she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

Not everyone got a close family. Not everyone needed one.

Some girls couldn't stand being alone. Bridget was different. She went to movies, restaurants, even parties by herself. She loved her three friends above all other things, but she'd rather be alone than cling to people she didn't care about.

she'd rather be alone than cling to people she didn't care about.

He was never very good at talking about feelings. He'd been on his own for so long that it was as if he'd had to learn a new language

Looking back, I was becoming extremely hard. You couldn't afford to have somebody care about you because you weren't really allowed to care about yourself. I didn't want people feeling sorry for me. I just wanted to survive. I

Another of my homonym rules is that I have to think of the homonyms myself. What is the point of looking at someone else's list and copying it? My list is original.

She's thinking of signing up for Outward Bound next year. That's where they give you all this survival training, then send you out in the wilderness to be on your own for three days, with nothing but a few matches or something like that.

I earn my own respect, I told Emilie. I don't ride the coattails of someone else.