Quotes About Self-reliance

Never follow the crowd.

Listen to me he said. You are not to look upon yourself as victims or victims you will surely be.

The fuckin' cavemen had it right. They knew. An afternoon's work killing a dinosaur and live off it for a couple of weeks.

Due to their reluctance to tie themselves down at a young age, they have the capacity as well as the predisposition to be their own bosses and following their own dreams.

Tout essayer, tout tenter, accumuler les expériences, ne plus se servir de celles du passé ou d'autrui pour comprendre mais ne se fier qu'à soi-même dans le présent.

I'm not a victim, don't ever treat me like a victim, my mother didn't raise me to be a victim.

and she asked herself – how can I rise above my situation in order to raise my child as the sole wage-earner in a parenting situation of one?

U godinama nakon toga shvatit ?u da osoba koja ima kontrolu u vezi ovisi o slabom partneru, a ipak ta tobožnja slaba osoba procvate kad oti?e, dok je ona, navodno ja?a, manje sposobna sama se iznijeti. Ako snagu crpiš pod?injavanjem druge osobe, onda si ti slab i ovisan.

My life has been a struggle -- a struggle to have my own way where I felt I was in the right.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

I hope I can pull the wagon by myself. Yes, I'll manage, there's not much in it now. I must get back into business.

No temas preguntar, compañero! No te dejes convencer! ¡Compruébalo tu mismo! Lo que no sabes por ti, no lo sabes

Some people find it comfortable to go through life on their knees, and good luck to them, but I prefer to keep my spine in the position nature intended.

But I hurt everywhere, Mama. How do I make it stop?" She looked at me with a sad smile. "I don't know. Only you can figure that out. But try to remember something, Teddi: Never tie you happiness to the tail of someone else's kite.

Never tie your happiness to the end of someone else's kite.

Power isn't control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.

Pull yourself together and use what you have.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

There were undoubtedly worse things than being an unmarried woman in charge of her own life, free to come and go as she pleased, free to explore pleasure.

Women can't advance if they pick up their skirts and run every time a man growls." Dix

I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.

The wise man carries his possessions within him.

If you want to rule your life with obligations to other people, that's you.