Quotes About Self-reliance

Oneself, indeed, is one's own protector. One does, indeed, [make] one's own destiny.

Evil is done by oneself alone; By oneself is one defiled. Evil is avoided by oneself; By oneself alone is one purified. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; No one can purify another.

It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and f*ing figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed.

If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.

I'm not good at things like that: haircuts or oil changes or dentist visits. When I moved into my bungalow, I spent the first three months swaddled in blankets because I couldn't deal with getting the gas turned on. It's been turned off three times in the past few years, because sometimes I can't quite bring myself to write a check. I have trouble maintaining.

If you let a man cancel plans or decline to do things for you, you lose.

Diane didn't worry, that was for less hearty women.

It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and fucking figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed.

The woman got shit done, and she was not one to abandon a project (say, her fixer-upper husband, for instance), even if she decided she didn't like it.

Go online and fucking figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed.

I wonder what it feels like to be a woman whose Christmas present must be bought in cash. Liberating.

That's what he learned from his life so far: always aim smaller. He was born to be lonely, that's what he knew for certain

It's not stand by your man anymore, it's divorce the fucker.

She was short, she was plain, and she showed signs of wanting her own way. Disappointed

Make your own choices before anyone else makes them for you and way before the house lights are lowered.

You can't convince me that I'm obligated to save you from yourself.

If you want to head for hell by way of smoking weed or opium, or by drinking, or by being dim enough to call a giant names to his face, go head. Enjoy the slide. I won't get in your way. Nope. I won't hand you a bucket of grease, either. You've got to do it on your own.

Equal justice for all. As long as you make it yourself.

Jeste?my ofiarami w?asnej kompetencji. Zawsze wysy?a nas tam, gdzie zanosi si? na najci??sz? przepraw?. Wie, ?e poradzimy sobie jak nikt inny. Cholera i jeszcze raz cholera.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

I've been victimized but that doesn't mean I have to be a victim.

What to us looks like independence is really just dependence transferred. We are in such a hurry for our children to be able to do things themselves that we do not see just how dependent they really are. Like power, dependence has become a dirty word. We want our children to be self-directing, self-motivated, self-controlled, self-orienting, self-reliant, and self-assured. We have put such a premium on independence that we lose sight of what childhood is about. Parents

experience had taught him how far their minds reflected each other. But he was the elder, by a matter of minutes, and that brief extra interval of light, while his brother still struggled in pain and darkness, had given him self-reliance and an instinct of protection towards the other who was afraid of so many things.

There is no emotion more useless than self-pity. Evan