Quotes About Self-reliance

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

To seek for utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free.

If it is better to be happy as a result of one's own exertions than by the gift of fortune, it is reasonable to suppose that this is how happiness is won.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

But he who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Happiness belongs to those who suffice themselves.

Over the next eight years, almost without noticing, I arrived at a quiet revelation. You could make a home by yourself. You could fill that home with friends and friendly strangers without someone sleeping next to you. You could tend your garden and cook your meals and find predictable pleasure in your own autonomy.

You, calling yourself a reasonable man, are going about dependent for your happiness, dignity, and growth, upon a thousand things over which you have no control, and the most exquisitely organised machine for ensuring happiness, dignity, and growth, is rusting away inside you.

I can't have you making tea for me. It's not decent.

If you don't believe in yourself, then how will anyone else believe in you?

Hij begint te praten. 'Je moet niet toegeven aan de narcistische reflex om te willen helpen. Zo'n man kan het alleen. Als je hem gaat helpen wordt hij afhankelijk. Je kweekt afhankelijkheid. Je moet hard zijn. Alleen helpen waar het echt niet anders kan en verder laten gaan. De grote vijand van de hulpverlener is de narcistische reflex.

There was no objection when he said: "I'm going after it." Nor did he expect there to be; his life was now his own, to do with as he pleased. He

He pressed the button, and waited. Several minutes later, a metal arm moved out from the bunk, and a plastic nipple descended toward his lips. He sucked on it eagerly, and a warm, sweet fluid coursed down his throat, bringing renewed strength with every drop.

who is better off, the child with a mentor who knows and tells everything or the one whose teacher helps the child find her own answers?

Carente de contacto con el mundo exterior, era un universo en sí misma.

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

As long as I have my trousers I have a hip-pocket, and as long as I have my hip-pocket I have something in it.

Her manner of dress, of speech, of doing her hair, of spending her time, had not changed since it first became apparent to a far younger Morgen that in all her life to come no one was, in all probability, going to care in the slightest how she looked, or what she did, and the minor wrench of leaving humanity behind was more than compensated for by her complacent freedom from a thousand small irritations.

Why don't you grow up by yourself?

I have no way of knowing what we may be called upon to do for ourselves.

It has always been my opinion that princesses are confined in towers only because they choose to stay confined, and the only dragon required to keep them there was their own desire to be kept.

I have neither friends nor relatives, thank goodness. I'm as lonely as a stone.

Even if you don't believe me, it's no skin off my back. I don't have to brag to you!

Nothing lasts forever. And no one is ever satisfied. We're tired of going from door to door for kvawdehz and nikelz. Better your own slice of bread than the next man's loaf.