Quotes About Self-reliance

A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.

Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Your life will be what you create it as, and no one will stand in judgment of it, now or ever.

He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

I don't live my life seeking validation from people on social media.

Life helps those who help themselves.

Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

I like my life alone.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

There comes a time in every man's life when he's gotta handle up on his own. Can't depend on friends to help you in a squeeze, Please...they got problems of their own.

Don't count on others to hand your life to you.

Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.

You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.

I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing.

Sometimes in life you have to be your own best friend.