Quotes About Self-reliance

Agora você sozinho. Nada de medo que você está ficando um homenzinho. Meu

Quien obtiene favores sin tener méritos, debe temblar: fracasará después, cien veces, en cada cambio de viento. Los nobles ingenios solo confían en sí mismos, luchan, salvan los obstáculos, se imponen.

La falta de personalidad hace, a éstos, incapaces de iniciativa y de resistencia.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one's drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one's language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

Lonely? How can you be lonely ? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely. In the meantime, stop complaining. You're nearly a man now, and a man has to work. Ever since the world began, men have been doing jobs they didn't like. Why should it be any different for you? You're the seventh son of a seventh son, and this is the job you were born to do. - Mam

He is great enough that is his own master.

You can't pull yourself up your bootstraps if you have no boots.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Let people move themselves. Don't insist on doing it for them.

No, I don't." Graystripe gave an exasperated snort. "But what will Sandstorm think? She's not some pretty little kittypet, hiding behind big, strong warriors. She can take care of herself.

Don't try to follow me. Cats have no friends or allies here. They must walk their path of shadows alone.

gaze steadily. "This is your decision, Fireheart. No cat can make it for you.

your decision, Fireheart. No cat can make it for you.

He could not trust her. He could not trust the sun. He could only trust himself and his Clan.

Jaypaw narrowed his eyes. "I'm not as blind as you think.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own toys, if men don't have pockets in their pants, tougho.

But don't go thinking I owe you any favors, mister. :-)

She did it to get the extra food vouchers from the government every month. Most of the time, I had to find food on my own.

There was no downtime between calls, because there were always several hundred morons in the call queue, all of them willing to wait on hold for hours to have a tech rep hold their hand and fix their problem. Why bother looking up the solution online? Why try to figure the problem out on your own when you could have someone else do your thinking for you?