Quotes About Self-reliance

I did not know that a person could hold up a wall made up of imaginary bricks and mortar against the horrors and cruel, dark tricks of time that assail us, and be the author therefore of themselves.

The burden of getting older was borne alone

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else's. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else's, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.

It is this lack of self-reliance that opens the possibility of immense catastrophes of civilization such as the rule of the Nazis in Germany.

Fuck it, I'll make my own quote.

It had become quite clear to me that I gated being told what to do. I wanted to be independent.

Don't let yourselves get caught up in someone else's story. Stick to your own tale, my darlings. Write your own ending

Why must a young girl need a man to save her? Why can't a princess fight for her own life, break her own curse? Why must it always be a prince? By Hades, I want to kill Prince Phillip on principle, just so we don't have yet one more prince kissing some helpless sleeping girl, making her feel like she has to marry him out of gratitude.

Por qué una joven necesita que un hombre la salve? ¿Por qué no puede una princesa luchar por su propia vida, romper su propia maldición? ¿Por qué debe haber siempre un príncipe? Por Hades, quiero matar al príncipe Phillip por una cuestión de principios, para que no tengamos otra vez a un príncipe que besa a una chica durmiente indefensa y que luego ella sienta que tiene que casarse con él para darle las gracias.

Don't let yourselves get caught up in someone else's story. Stick to your own tale, my darlings. Write your own ending if you need to.

Distinguish yourself. [Mama] wanted me to be more like her. But Papa had always wanted me to be my own woman. He wanted me to distinguish myself from my mother.

No other person can have power over you or your destiny unless you decide to let him or her have it.

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.

Maybe it was cold and miserable in the forest, but man can bring his own warmth and comfort anywhere he goes.

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain that all five of them were capable of fending for themselves; that they could make tolerable fortunes as bodyguards, assassins, or mercenaries if need be.

No one will ever breathe one breath for us. No one will ever think one thought that is ours. No one will ever stand in our bodies, experience what happens to us, feel our fears, dream our dreams, or cry our tears. We are born, live, and leave this life entirely on our own. That "self," and the divine spirit which drives it, are what we have. No one else can ever live a single moment of our lives for us. That we must do for ourselves. That is responsibility.

success, ultimately, is up to the individual. It isn't the pen—it's the writer; it isn't the road—it's the runner that counts.

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

I trust my own process. I always have everything I need.

It was not his custom or his pleasure to listen to gossip or instructions from people who were strangers to him, even if they did share the same skin colour, or religion, or traditions.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life...go make your happily-ever-after happen.