Quotes About Self-reliance

Topeka meant, a good place to find potatoes. That made Dorothy laugh. But any place is what you make it said etta. You've got to make it home. You've got to do it for yourself.... It's difficult because everybody wants to be loved and you think you can't find a home unless you are loved by somebody, anybody. But it's not true. Sometimes you can learn to live without being loved. It's terribly hard, but you can do it. The trick is to remember what it's like to be loved.

The only periods, I suspect, when a man feels captain of his soul are those when he has not the slightest need of such an organ.

Everybody has choices, Mother. The poorest girl alive may not be able to choose between being Queen of England or Principal of Newnham; but she can choose between rag-picking and flower-selling, according to her taste. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

and I wont be coaxed round as if I was a baby or a puppy. If I cant have kindness, I'll have independence.

I can do without anybody. I have my own soul: my own spark of divine fire.

I don't say it was a bad one. But bad or good, I didn't choose to be cut to your measure. And I won't be cut to it.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

As pessoas estão sempre culpando as circunstâncias pelo que elas são. Eu não acredito em circunstâncias. Os indivíduos que progridem neste mundo são aqueles que se mexem e procuram as circunstâncias que querem, e, se não conseguem encontrá-las, eles as criam.

I often warn people: Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no I in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an I in independence, individuality and integrity.

Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.

If you had yourself cloned, who exactly, would be your parents? Can you raise yourself? I guess so. And it might be fun. Just think, by the age of six you'd be driving yourself to school.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

You are a good young man, she said. But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

Mary was fond of her own thoughts, and could amuse herself well sitting in twilight with her hands in her lap; for, having early had strong reason to believe that things were not likely to be arranged for her peculiar satisfaction, she wasted no time in astonishment and annoyance at that fact. And she had already come to take life very much as a comedy in which she had a proud, nay, a generous resolution not to act the mean or treacherous part.

He loved also to think, I did it! And I believe the only people who are free from that weakness are those who have no work to call their own.

How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill! . . . . . . . This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself though not of lands; And having nothing yet hath all. —SIR

Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in.

But I'll not throw away good knowledge on people who think they can get it by the sixpenn'orth, and carry it away with 'em as they would an ounce of snuff. So never come to me again, if you can't show that you've been working with your own heads, instead of thinking that you can pay for mine to work for you. That's the last word I've got to say to you.

There is a fine line between loneliness and independence.

Try to realize it's all within yourself, no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

Self-reliant loners, who think they can do everything on their own, often make fatal mistakes and decisions.

Myth 7: Everyone Can Pull Himself or Herself Up by the Bootstraps.

The rich are thus not just more powerful than the poor, they also have moral authority over the poor and with it the moral responsibility to tell the poor how to live: build self-discipline, work hard, climb the economic ladder, and so become self-reliant. M

I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!