Quotes About Self-reliance

You can tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.

But the moral of the tale is that the real way to see New Mexico is simply to go off on a horse, and then on and on, rejoicing that nobody knows or cares whether you ever come back, taking adventure and beauty and night's lodging as they come.

You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world.

My mother told me in the hospital that day that I was not like my brother and sister: "Look at your life right now. You just went ahead and…did it." Perhaps she meant that I was already ruthless.

Siempre estamos solos. Nacemos solos. Morimos solos. ¿Qué más da?

I learned a long time ago … you can't live other people's lives. We have to make our own decisions, even if we're wrong.

Seneca's solution to life's inevitable cruelties was to withdraw. It was an increasingly attractive reaction in the later imperial age. The wise man must shun unnecessary human contact and connections, Seneca said. He must live within, and for, himself. He must cultivate the virtue of apatheia, literally an indifference to the fate of others—apathy even, in the last moment, to his own fate (faced by unjust accusations by the emperor Nero, Seneca and his wife chose suicide).

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

He had his own world, this one, and it was fine to be here, living alone, in his own way. The hare ambled silently along the trail ahead of the skier, like a pathfinder. Vatanen sang to it.

The work was heavy, but Vatanen liked that. He knew he was getting stronger, and he wasn't weighed down by the thought of having to do this work till the end of his life.

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

Que a perro flaco todo son pulgas, y los españoles no necesitamos a nadie para arruinarnos, pues siempre dominamos bien sobrados el finibusterre de hacerlo solos

A world, in which we wouldn't expect anything from others, would be a hell.

Si te empeñas, tú mismo puedes ser tan peligroso como cualquiera que se cruce en tu camino.

The best thing a teacher can do is to transform the student into his own teacher. So that the student in the end only needs his teacher for a second opinion.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.

In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.

Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you.