Quotes About Self-reliance

You have to not let yourself believe you can't. Do what you can do within the framework of what you have, and don't look outside - look inside.

If we are happy within ourselves, we don't accept or demand that our partner should fulfill every need. We need to be comfortable with our own company.

When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.

I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

I know it sounds like I'm playing all these wives and girlfriends, but they're not waiting at home. I wear the pants.

Very rarely am I attracted to characters that are 'woe is me.' I'm not a big fan of women that have to be the victim and need to be saved, at all times. I don't necessarily think that's how it is, in real life, and I don't think that's how it should be in films.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, 'I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me.'

To be honest, I think affiliation is anathema - if you're a rock 'n' roller, you're a lone wolf.

I think I'm still a lone wolf, internally. And I always will be.

I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.

Why do so many children love the idea of being snowed in or shipwrecked, of having to survive on one's own? When I was a child, I was no exception. I wanted to hunt with a bow and arrow like the Stone Age people: to skin deer and build my own shelter. And I desperately wanted a wolf. As we lived in London, my options were limited.

When I came on in '68, I was really the lone wolf.

I'm more of the lone wolf.

I didn't have my mom or my dad or cousins or anybody to guide me. I was around a whole bunch of wolves... I was just like, 'Lord, just guide me and weed these snakes out of my life.'

I think Finns in general, we are quite calm and I think we're mentally in general quite strong, and we don't mind to be alone. We are lonely wolves, a lot of us.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent - whether you use it or not.

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.