Quotes About Self-reliance

Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own effort. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. If

Using intimidation builds weakness because it reinforces dependence on external factors

Our basic nature is to act, and not be acted upon. As well as enabling us to choose our response to particular circumstances, this empowers us to create circumstances.

We choose—either to live our lives or to let others live them for us. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and to others, little by little we increase our strength until our ability to act is more powerful than any of the forces that act upon us.

We choose—either to live our lives or to let others live them for us.

Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality. Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players.

effective interdependence can only be built on a foundation of true independence.

On the maturity continuum, dependence is the paradigm of you—you take care of me; you come through for me; you didn't come through; I blame you for the results.

When you have No Deal as an option in your mind, you feel liberated because you have no need to manipulate people, to push your own agenda, to drive for what you want.

eventually we can essentially take care of ourselves, becoming inner-directed and self-reliant.

smack of dependence, and therefore, we find people, often for selfish reasons, leaving their marriages, abandoning their children, and forsaking all kinds of social responsibility—all in the name of independence.

Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players.

As humans, our tendency is to play the victim. And unless you're watchful, it will sneak up on you and you'll start blaming outside forces—parents, spouses, bosses, the weather, the government, circumstances, "the Man," whomever—for your problems. In reality, we are not victims. We're agents. We are the creative forces of our lives, and we are free to choose. But we have to be reminded of this all the time.

True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon. It frees us from our dependence on circumstances and other people and is a worthy, liberating goal.

First, take responsibility for your life; and second, take initiative. It's that simple. Be an agent, not a victim. Don't wait for life to happen to you; happen to it. Be the driver of your life, not just a passenger. Live out of your imagination, not your past.

Because we saw him as fundamentally adequate and able to cope with life, we stopped protecting him against the ridicule of others.

am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Many people wait for something to happen or someone to take care of them. But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with

A sealed door admits no light.' Will you not speak to me? No hand may open that door but your own.

Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you're twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling all over you're a successful professional woman.

Tengo que esforzarme más para lograr mi objetivo de no solicitar la aprobación de aquellas personas cuya aprobación ni siquiera estoy seguro de que es importante para mí. LAUREN GRAHAM, ACTOR

God save me from politicians, Christians, or pagans who think they are my mother!

You are really and truly and completely free.

Albert Einstein said there comes a time in life when you must stop reading other people's books and start writing your own.