Quotes About Self-reliance

You can't go around blaming bad luck on someone else. everything that has happened to you is because you make it happen, okay?

I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir," she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them for me.

Unless I learn to ask no help From any other soul but mine, To seek no strength in waving reeds Nor shade beneath a straggling pine; Unless I learn to look at Grief Unshrinking from her tear-blind eyes, And take from Pleasure fearlessly Whatever gifts will make me wise— Unless I learn these things on earth, Why was I ever given birth?

we had each other. I never needed anyone else. That's the difference between you and me. You need all these people around you. Your friends, your boyfriend, everyone. Every single person has to like you. I only ever needed one person. Only ever needed you.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is—not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.

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.

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.

There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world.

I am not Captain Save-A-Ho; I can only save one at a time, and that's me!

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.