Quotes About Self-reliance

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I've drawn myself apart from them all; I am my own skipper and later on I shall see where I come to land

Every child has to raise itself.' Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction.

But there's only one person I'm accountable to, and that's me.

She's not a mother to me – I have to mother myself. I've cut myself adrift from them. I'm charting my own course, and we'll see where it leads me.

Nu exist? decât o singur? regul? de care trebuie s? È›ii seama: s? râzi de toate È™i s? nu-È›i pese de nimeni! Pare egoist, dar, în realitate, ?sta e singurul remediu pentru cei care-È™i plâng singuri de mil?.

Who knows, perhaps the day will come when I'm left alone more than I'd like!

Is it really such an admirable trait not to let myself be influenced by others? Am I right in following my own conscience? To

Trebuie s? devin bun? singur?, f?r? exemple È™i f?r? discursuri, asta pentru ca mai târziu s? fiu cât mai puternic?.

I'll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it'll make me stronger in the end.

It didn't happen overnight. I've struggled long and hard and shed many tears to become as independent as I am now.

I didn't trust anyone but myself.

Every child has to raise itself." Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately, people shape their own characters.

You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. You need to trust yourself, especially on a first draft, where amid the anxiety and self-doubt, there should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

When we think we can do it all ourselves--fix, save, buy, or date a nice solution--it's hopeless. We're going to screw things up. We're going to get our tentacles wrapped around things and squirt our squiddy ink all over, so that there is even less visibility, and then we're going to squeeze the very life out of everything.

You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept.

There is almost nothing outside you that will help in any kind of lasting way

We cannot arrange lasting safety or happiness for our most beloved people. They have to find their own ways, their own answers.

You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. You need to trust yourself, especially on a first draft, where amid the anxiety and self-doubt, there should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

When you are alone -- at sea, in the polar dark -- an absence can keep you alive.

Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of coming of age -to learn how to stand alone.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

Woman must come of age by herself. She must find her true center alone.

do not walk slowly simply for company—ever.