Quotes About Self-reliance

Live by your own rules Move to your rhythm, instead of dancing to the beat of someone else's drum Decide how you want to be treated Choose what you will or will not tolerate Leave if you don't get what you want.

When you live life with him or without him, that is when he will accept and value you for who you are.

The more independent you are of him, the more interested he will be.

If someone else doesn't like your confidence, that's their problem. Why? You always come before they do, that's why.

I see you are still determined to not listen to me about not venturing abroad after lights-out.' She sat down across from him at the worktable. 'I never listen to you when I know enough to make up my own mind.

I like money very well. It is the means to independence and authority.

She had always known her own mind and been competent at everything she did. And he had always taken great pride in her—when she'd been the feather in his cap, the envy of his colleagues, a woman who, despite the elevated circumstances into which she had been born, had found in him everything she needed. Except that had never been true, had it? She'd always needed more. And now she had it.

There was never a man present in all her dreams of freedom; there had always been only her, in glorious , splendid solitude, replete in and of herself.

Don't worry, darling. I'll look out for myself. And I've reached an age when I have no problem telling someone to fuck off.

If you don't learn how to be alone, you'll always be lonely, loneliness is failed solitude.

the transformative power of intelligence, self-reliance, and words.

if you never teach your children how to be alone then they will only know how to be lonely for the rest of their lives.

Lizzy's inarching to her own drummer

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No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

Following along the path of her role models, Shirley knew that if she waited for permission, she'd never receive her turn.

The law cannot do the major part of the job of winning equality for women. Women must do it themselves. Against them is arrayed the weight of centuries of tradition, from St. Paul's "Let women learn in silence" down to the American adage "A woman's place is in the home." Women have been persuaded of their own inferiority.

You became an adult when you stopped caring what other people thought about you and started to care what you thought about them.

That was the problem. Somehow you got this feeling that a dependent woman was feminine and an independent woman wasn't feminine, that it was unfeminine to be responsible for yourself.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

The first year holds trauma unlike any other. The second year is a time of learning hard lessons, facing harsh realities, understanding that you, alone, are responsible for the life change you must accept, the new life you must develop.

Remember the greatest motivator is belief. We have to inculcate in ourselves the belief that we are responsible for our actions and behavior. When people accept responsibility, everything improves: quality, productivity, relationships and teamwork.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Men are made stronger on the realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own right arm.