Quotes About Self-reliance

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

Swallow your poison, for you need it badly.

Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what you want and that you want. Fourth question for the conscience.

If you would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

Dare only to believe in yourselves- in yourselves and in your inward parts! He who does not believe in himself always lies.

A thinking man never be a party man.

No one tells me anything new, so I tell myself my own story.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure.

I learned to walk; since then I have let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot.

We must know how to preserve ourselves: the greatest test of independence.

Go your ways! and let the people and peoples go theirs!- gloomy ways, verily, on which not a single hope glints any more!

Odobravanje. Mislilac ne potrebuje odobravanje i pljesak, uz pretpostavku da je siguran u svoj vlastiti pljesak.

Detesto seguir alguém assim como detesto conduzir. Obedecer? Não! E governar, nunca! Quem não se mete medo não consegue metê-lo a ninguém, E só aquele que o inspira pode comandar. Já detesto guiar-me a mim próprio! Gosto, como os animais das florestas e dos mares, De me perder durante um grande pedaço, Acocorar-me a sonhar num deserto encantador, E forçar-me a regressar de longe aos meus penates, Atrair-me a mim próprio... para mim.

Verhasst ist mir das Folgen und das Führen. Gehorchen? Nein! Und aber nein - Regieren! Wer sich nicht schrecklich ist, macht Niemand Schrecken: Und nur wer Schrecken macht, kann Andre führen. Verhasst ist mir's schon, selber mich zu führen! Ich liebe es, gleich Wald- und Meeresthieren, Mich für ein gutes Weilchen zu verlieren, In holder Irrniss grüblerisch zu hocken, Von ferne her mich endlich heimzulocken, Mich selber zu mir selber - zu verführen.

apa? kamu mencari? kamu ingin membanyakkan dirimu menjadi sepuluh, seratus kali? kamu mencari pengikut? carilah nol!

Poor. — Today he is poor, not because they have taken everything away from him but because he has thrown everything away. What is that to him? He is used to finding things. It is the poor who misunderstand his voluntary poverty.

Can you furnish yourself with your own good and evil and hang up your own will above yourself as a law? Can you be judge of yourself and avenger of your law? It is terrible to be alone with the judge and avenger of one's law. It is to be like a star thrown forth into empty space and into the icy breath of solitude.

In the end one has to do everything oneself in order to know a few things oneself: that is, one has a lot to do. But a curiosity of my type remains after all the most agreeable of all vices—sorry, I meant to say: the love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.—

curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally. Mother rarely insisted I do anything. Father

The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.

We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.

You have to take it upon yourself and preserve and can foods that you'll want for the winter.

When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my vehicle will be parked and the name of the county sheriff to contact in case I don't get home.