Quotes About Self-reliance

I am very independent. I can look after myself but I still need a lot of love and care.

Just keep moving forward and don't give a sh** about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.

I don't want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's, to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.

She didn't want to end up like some girls from her school, exhausted and pushing prams in their mid-twenties, financially dependent on husbands they seemed to despise.

her. "No, thank you, Mrs. Cordoza. You get along. I'm just

I was good at keeping secrets from my parents (it's one of the things we learn while growing up, after all)—but coping with the anxiety by myself was something else entirely.

With no money, no home and none of my things? That's the biggest bunch of Hallmark greetings-card self-help crap I've ever heard.

Pastor, you know you're talking to a room full of happily unmarried women here, right?

By the way, once you get over your dependence, you may actually find, as this client did, that it feels good to be self-sufficient; your resourcefulness will then build your self-esteem and give you confidence.)

while Mr. Edwards was in the town, and they had no other minister to preach to them, they carried on public worship among themselves, and without any preaching, rather than invite him.

You cannot deceive me if I'm not looking for anything from you.

I am America," Clay will proudly declare. "I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me

The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think.

I don't want you to be safe ideologically. I don't want you to be safe emotionally. I want you to be strong. That's different. I'm not going to pave the jungle for you. Put on some boots, and learn how to deal with adversity. I'm not going to take all the weights out of the gym; that's the whole point of the gym. This is the gym.

Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.

don't want you to be safe ideologically. I don't want you to be safe emotionally. I want you to be strong. That's different. I'm not going to pave the jungle for you. Put on some boots, and learn how to deal with adversity. I'm not going to take all the weights out of the gym; that's the whole point of the gym. This is the gym.

Friendship's a fine thing but in the end we all walk alone.

I can't be your ghost right now. I need to exist

When God wants to punish us, he gives us just ourselves to care for.

But remember this. When God wants to punish us, he gives us just ourselves to care for.

When I asked her how she would have fared had she remained out there on her own, fishing for information online and trying to figure out where to begin, she replied that she might eventually have made a successful transition, but the process would have been difficult and demoralizing.

You're not our leader,' Dave said. 'No, but I know what I'm doing, which is a nice alternative.' - Lucy

One other thing, Esmira," Solomon said as they stepped through. "I'm not your master. If this should be the last hour of your life, try not to need one.

There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.