Quotes About Self-reliance

Don't try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you

The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.

Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

Maybe one of my problems is I never depend upon the kindness of strangers.

I was desperate to show him what I could do on my own. But my father, because he hadn't been there, simply didn't believe what I was actually capable of accomplishing.

even if you are a victim, you must never be a victim. Even if you deserve to be one. Because while you wait for somebody to come along and set things right, life has moved forward without you.

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

But I don't think of you. (Howard Roark)

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way , when and if you are an architect?" "Yes." "My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

Never ask people about your work.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Toohey: Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us. Roark: But I don't think of you.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others. - Howard Roark

I think. I am. I will.

Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

Why no. I'm too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don't make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I'm an utter egotist.

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.