Quotes About Self-reliance

I like difficult old women, she said. I'm in training to be one myself.

Let them have their ways, but let us never loose ours.

Sad is the man who has no place to put his faith other than in himself.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Kotcheff recalled after a northern trek with Trudeau. "He was by far the best dish-washer, fire-maker and camp organizer. He put some of us to shame.… Not only was he fit, he turned out to be one of the best canoeists and sternsmen in the group. If anyone succumbed to the elements, it wouldn't be Pierre.

We will not get real freedom as a concession from rulers. We will have to win real freedom for ourselves.

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

Be your own dentist!

poema de Chuang-Tzu, escrito séculos antes de Cristo: "Eu sei que não terei sucesso. Tentar forçar os resultados somente aumentaria a confusão. Não será melhor desistir e parar de me esforçar? Mas, se eu não me esforçar, quem o fará?".

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.

The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

Daughter am I in my mother's house; But mistress in my own.

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Most of the reasons people think they can't do something are reasons they've created. Everything you do is up to you. Part of life is realizing that you have much more potential and ability than you'd ever know. However, it is up to you to reach inside, face the fears, and unleash that which really drives you.

That man is strongest who stands alone!

Eighteen, and in control of my own destiny. For that man is strongest who stands alone.

Freedom, I was beginning to realize, is something you have to insist upon.

Many folk's troubles would be less Could they be brought to understand That oft they cause their own distress, And hold its cure in their own hand. ~ Snippet from The Faith Cure by A.G. SHIRREFF

Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.

While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.