Quotes About Self-reliance

I am free! for I have in me the strength of truth.

What a splendid king you'd make of a desert island-- you and you alone.

O waste no fears on me; look to thyself.

Creon is not your downfall, no, you are your own.

When you are one of several, then you have lost your freedom; you cannot send for your traveling boots whenever you wish, you cannot move aimlessly about in the world. ~ Either/Or

We want more people owning things in this country. Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life.

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.

Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.

You are by yourself for the best years of your life. You sleep in airports. If it doesn't kill you it makes you strong.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.

Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.

My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

I never worked in an office in my life.

In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.

If you don't control your life, someone else will.

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner v

A strong woman will automatically stoptrying if she feels unwanted. She won't fix it or beg, she'll just walk away.

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone, I felt best being alone, cleaner, , ,

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

We're all in this together - by ourselves.