Quotes About Self-reliance

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Since there's no more you and me. It's time I let you go so I Can Be Free.

Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!

Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that.

We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

I love having a boyfriend but need to be secure on my own first.

What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.

You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love.

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

Sadhana is towards creating a sense of inner fulfillment, where there is no need to lean on anyone anymore.

I want to live like a man.

I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.

Nate would tolerate most things for about an hour if he knew there was the promise of a snack and the chance to be left alone in the near future.

A woman can always get some practical use from a torn-up life . . . She likes mending and patching it, making sure the edges are straight. She spreads the last shred out and takes its measure: 'What can I do with this remnant? How long does it need to last? A man puts on his life ready-made. If it doesn't fit, he will try to exchange it for another. Only a fool of a man will try to adjust the sleeves or move the buttons; he doesn't know how.

You've delegated the ability to make up your mind.

Ah, but Marcella knew quite well, boasted even, that she never would or could love any man.

Why are we always looking for someone else to save us instead of trying to save ourselves?