Quotes About Self-reliance

While it took much longer than I ever anticipated to see my writing efforts pay off, it finally happened so that at the age of forty-three I was my own woman, beholden to no one.

You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.

I would like to suggest that you take responsibility for your joy and never again give anyone else the job of keeping you happy. You can control what you do, but you cannot control what other people do. So you may be unhappy a lot of the time if you depend on them as your source of joy. The psalmist David said that he encouraged himself in the Lord, and if he can do it, then we can do it too.

Trust in Him When we trust in ourselves, it leads to strife and shows that we don't trust God to do what He says in His Word—be with us, deliver us, and honor us. When we trust God, however, it leads to the reward of peace—peace within ourselves, peace with God, and peace with others.

Take the helm and sail your own ship. Don't just get into the boat with nobody at the helm and merely hope that the waves of life take you somewhere good.

Oh, yes, we all want to help others reach their full potential, especially our children and grandchildren. But the bottom line is that none of us can do that for someone else, and no one else can do it for us. We must each do it for ourselves. We must each discover our own God-given gifts and talents, what we are truly capable of, and then put ourselves to the task of developing those gifts, talents and capabilities to their fullest extent.

We must take responsibility for ourselves, and stop expecting others to do for us what we should be doing for ourselves... or trusting God to do for us.

don't be overly concerned about what other people think of you and your decisions. Most of them are not thinking about you as much as you might imagine that they are anyway.

Whatever we gain by the works of our own flesh, we will have to maintain the same way we gained it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said it this way: "Nothing external to you has any power over you."1

Walking after the flesh is depending on yourself; walking after the Spirit is depending on God.

because he didn't know how to twirl by his ankles, and he didn't want to learn.

Never trust anyone. You are always alone, and betrayal is inevitable.

Ä°dealistlerin çok belirli bir özellikleri vard?r.Neyin doÄŸru neyin yaln?? olduÄŸuna kendileri karar verirler.Ä°çlerinden gelen sesi dinlerler ve kendi deÄŸer yarg?lar? doÄŸrultusunda davran?rlar.Ä°dealizm törpülenmedikçe,kendisindn baÅŸka hiç bir otoriteye boyun eÄŸmez.Ä°dealistler her zaman serseri may?nlard?r.

As a kid, Vix had had some warped idea that grownup meant having a job and living on your own. It meant no one could tell you what to eat, or what to wear, or how to behave. It meant that it was okay to have sex with guys. What a joke!

Ho jaaoge be-matlab hi badnaam raaz apne, apne tak hi rakha karo

No greater good can come to any man or woman than to become self-active. All the experiences of life are designed by Providence to force men and women into self-activity; to compel them to cease being creatures of circumstances and master their environment.

Children from a big family have the benefit of a certain amount of neglect.

The ferocious virtues that had been necessary for survival on the American frontier were theirs: they were men who lived freely, wastefully, independently, and they lived by killing--animals as a rule, men if necessary.

This time she was writing the guidebook herself, as she went, and its authority could not be challenged or repudiated.

but she's as blunt as a splitting maul." She thinks about that, walking again.

There are several dubious assumptions about the early West. One is that it was the home of intractable self-reliance amounting to anarchy, whereas in fact large parts of it were owned by Eastern and foreign capital and run by iron-fisted bosses.

It was the way of Emma Lou always to create her worlds within her own mind without taking under consideration the fact that other people and other elements, not contained within herself, would also have to aid in their molding.

Man is his own master, and there is no higher being or power that sits in judgement over his destiny.