Quotes About Self-reliance

You can go your own way

Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you.

I don't need nobody to bleed for me! I can bleed for myself.

As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say… as long as he looks to white folks for approval… then he ain't never gonna find out who he is and what he's about.

Above all other things, trust yourself and make yourself a priority.

Freedom equals power.

You can't get ahead without believing in yourself.

Once you get past a certain threshold, everyone's problems are the same: fortifying your island and hiding the heat signature from your fusion reactor.

We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct.

Cavell writes: " 'No one comes' is a tragedy for a child. For a grown-up it means that the time has come to be the one who goes first."27

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

Happiness we can only find in ourselves, it is a waste of time to seek for it from others, few have any to spare. Sorrow we have to bear alone as best we can, it is not fair to try to shift it on others, be they men or women. We have to fight our own battles and strike as hard as we can, born fighters as we are.

As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.

I would rather clean than beg.

Great men can't be ruled.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.

The reason that we feel jealous is that we feel abandoned. This is absurd, because I am a grown-up person capable of looking after myself. I cannot, literally, be abandoned.

Por qué esperar al Salvador? Sálvate tú mismo, hermano, y entonces tu salvador habrá llegado.

When are you coming back?" he'd demanded as he'd watched her throw her clothes into two suitcases and head for the door. "When you get some help with your drinking." He didn't need any help. He drank fine without it.

Growth and decay is always in one's own hands. [It is an obvious statement. Nobody can ensure any body's growth if that person is destroying oneself. And if one is determined to grow nobody can cause that person's destruction.]