Quotes About Self-reliance

I prefer to work alone – except in the bedroom. (Steele)

Do I look like one-stop shopping for solving your problems?" – Evalle

She put a higher value on independence than an asthmatic put on oxygen.' Tzader

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.

THE GREATEST RISK IN LIFE IS TO WAIT FOR AND DEPEND UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY.

I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.

People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.

Many souls thrive on the life force of others and you are lunch!

It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.

I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.

The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.

No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.

I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity.

I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my personal preference to always be in control of everything I do in life.

There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.