Quotes About Self-reliance

self respect. self reliance. self control.

Lord of yourself, uncumber'd with a wife.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Above all else, I had learned the one thing every person has to learn to make it through life: the only person you can truly count on is yourself.

You can't go through life on "Borrowed light.

No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It's on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself!

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

I know I have only myself to blame for all the problems I've had in my life.

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview

I don't need anybody, I'm successful in life enough to buy myself a f'ing sandwich.

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

I listen to too many people. I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that

I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside.