Quotes About Self-reliance

It is tough to live by myself.

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

My career, I look at it in a Darwinian framework. I'm going to do exactly what I want, and I'm going to survive, or I'm not. I'm not going to pander. I'm not going to change things. I'm not going to do focus groups. I'll live and die by the sword. I don't care. Because I couldn't live with myself.

I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.

When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.

I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

That callousness that comes from feeling like you have to survive on your own - I really empathized with that.

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

I don't toe the party line all the time.

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim.

My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.

We would say we would play every pay toilet and use our own change. Across America and across the world, we just kept going and going.

Don't let yourself fall into 'empty.' Keep cash in the house. Keep gas in your tank. Keep an extra roll of toilet paper squirreled away. Keep your phone charged.

Being the one-woman label that I am takes a toll on you; you have to do everything.

But the more isolated people are—the less sense of community and responsibility for one another they feel—the more they turn to money for their comfort and survival.

I have no parents: I make the heaven and earth my parents. I have no friends: I make my mind my friend. I have no enemy: I make carelessness my enemy. I have no armor: I make benevolence and righteousness my armor. I have no castle: I make immovable mind my castle. I have no sword: I make absence of self my sword.

I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.

No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.

And know this: Know you are the type of woman who is searching for a place to call yours. Let the statues crumble. You have always been the place. You are a woman who can build it yourself. You were born to build.

Only you can decide what breaks you .

You help me become someone who can save himself.