Quotes About Self-reliance

The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

You asked me what I wanted to do with my money.' She looked him in the eye and said, 'I want to earn it.

I'm alive, she thought. No one is born happy. Everyone has to make his own happiness. I'm a survivor. I'm young and I'm healthy and wonderful things are going to happen.

You can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

si te sientes desgraciada, domina este sentimiento; haz de modo que tu felicidad no dependa de ningún hecho.

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

What other people think about me is none of my business .

But the answer is obvious: it is easy to believe one is sovereign when alone, to believe oneself strong when carefully refusing to bear any burden.

Une femme libre est exactement le contraire d'une femme légère

Pure, mi vergogno di lamentarmi. Quando si è avuta questa grande cosa che sento dentro di me, inalterabile, si può sopportare tutto il resto. L'essenza della mia gioia non è alla mercè delle circostanze esterne, per raggiungerla occorrerebbe una difficoltà proveniente direttamente da lui o da me stessa.

Et en fait tout homme qui a eu de vraies amours, de vraies révoltes, de vrais désirs, de vraies volontés, sait bien qu'il n'a besoin d'aucune garantie étrangère por être sûr de ses buts; leur certitude vient de son propre élan.

Ser libre es lanzarse en el mundo sin cálculo, sin apuestas, es definir uno mismo toda apuesta, toda medida.

That's what's so wonderful about you, you're so self-sufficient that I feel that you've created your own self.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

all of the good-intentioners who wanted to 'do something for the common people' were insignificant, because the 'common people' were able to do things for themselves, and highly likely to, as soon as they learned the fact.

She would earn her living.

I don't altogether admire everything Germany and Italy have done, but you've got to hand it to 'em, they've been honest enough and realistic enough to say to the other nations, 'Just tend to your own

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

We can not be swallowed up like those little pebbles. We aren't pebbles. We won't just quietly sink to the bottom. We can run, we can fight, and we can work. We are not helpless unless we let ourselves be.

Take your future into your own hands. Make it happen. Life is a coloring book, but you have the pens.

If you want to get ahead, you have to create your own chances. You have to carve out your own opportunities.

But there's no point. He's busy with his life - and I'm busy with mine.

If I ran the country there'd be courses in things that you'd actually use your whole life. Like: How to do eyeliner. How to fill in a tax return. What to do when your loo blocks and your dad isn't answering the phone and you're about to have a party.

Will I be OK? Krista gives a derisive laugh and swivels to face me. I've built up a business and I've turned off my mum's life-support machine and I've punched a shark in the face. I think I can cope with this .