Quotes About Self-reliance

If you can't have me as my own woman, able to make my own decisions and take care of myself, you can't have me at all.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

Out here a man settles his own problems

I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

Never apologize, mister, it's a sign of weakness.

Think't the best voyage that e'er you made like an irregular crab which, though't goes backward, thinks that it goes right, because it goes its own way.

A perfect day is: Nobody calls with a problem they can handle themselves.

she had never been alone to care for her own self one day of her life, nor could it ever have occurred to her that she might become responsible for the well- being of another.

You must be ready to confront difficulties if you would realise your hopes. It is the part of man to strive, and not to rely on the favours of Fortune.

I knew in my very heart that I would not be able to sustain myself for long alone.

George shrugged. "You just stood up to your mother, Tyler. I should think now you could take on the world.

If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck.

Joy of Backpacking,

Strong people do not need strong leaders.

Strong people don't need strong leaders.

To possess character is to be useful, and to be useful is to be independent, and to be useful and independent, is to be happy, even in the midst of sorrow; for sorrow is not necessarily unhappiness.

We have everything we need right here.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.

Never follow anyone else's path. Unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.

So to conclude my conclusion, follow your passion, stay true to yourself. Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path and by all means you should follow that. Don't give advice, it will come back and bite you in the ass. Don't take anyone's advice. So my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.

I, also, decided to get rid of the need of approval. That is a strong addiction, the need of approval, isn't it? That---I'm on the patch right now, actually. It releases small doses of approval until I no longer crave it. And, I'm going to rip it off!

You stop waiting anxiously for the phone to ring—because you're too busy living and pursuing your goals whether he calls or not.

You don't grovel. You're not desperate or anxious. You don't date men who don't want you. You trust in the abundance and goodness of the universe: if not him, someone better, you say. You don't settle. You don't chase anyone. You don't use sex to make men love you.

While parents are responsible for the stamp of character, as well as for the education and training, of their sons and daughters, it is still true that our position and usefulness in the world depend, to a great degree, upon our own course of action.