Quotes About Self-reliance

I was a me-ist. I believed in the right to do whatever I wanted to do regardless of gender. Still do.

I intend to be making films until I'm an old lady. So, if God willing I get there, I need to create a paradigm for myself where I can make it regardless of whether or not they still like what I'm making.

As you get a little older, you understand what you need to do to be good, regardless of who likes it or doesn't like it. It's my career. And at the end of the day, it's going to be how I think I can do it best.

There's gonna be people that don't like you, regardless. But I take on the mentality of, 'Look, I'm gonna do whatever I want to do. If people don't like, they don't like it.'

We need a president willing to embrace the idea that Washington is not the answer to all, or even most, of our problems, regardless of who is in charge.

I knew for a fact I needed to get some money. I felt like I was good to go with the music. People around me weren't as confident, but they didn't have to be, because I was going to do it regardless.

While the government underwrote the West more than any other region, the myth claimed that hardworking Western cowboys and settlers wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone to work out their own destiny.

It sure would be nice to have a Washington that was there for us, but most help has always been local and regional.

I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.

I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.

I don't have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

I did it my way, and I have no regrets when I look back on my career that it was just a big focus for me.

Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.

A lot of people offered me to go public, but I have always rejected it.

You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.

People used to call me for donations, and I couldn't relate to that because I have spent most of my life trying to support myself.

I am not looking for a relationship right now. I have no interest in putting my time or effort into another person, nor do I need another person to put energy into me, OK? Because that's what granola bars are for.

I'm not one of these guys who's constantly in a relationship, not at all.

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

Never stay with friends or relatives. You end up living on their schedules.

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.