Quotes About Self-reliance

No matter how many times we prove otherwise, the men don't seem to believe we can take care of ourselves." "Which is ridiculous," Rosa agreed, "Especially when you consider how many settler women over there on their frontier are doing just that.

I like clever people. Dull ones irritate me, especially those who expect to be told what to do, and if they are not told, do nothing, even when something that needs doing is right in front of them.

And I choose to be alone Rather than wrapped in arms I could never need.

There is a great fear that plagues only romantics and children... it is that they might be alright alone.

PRIVATE PRACTICES We may all get there...we may even arrive at the same time...but we all come alone

He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He had grown up. What a boy had set out to seek a man had found, found by the act of living.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed

Maybe, then, my lesbianism is no more than your manless self-reliance turned into itself.

I had a mother who would never allow herself to be a victim no matter what happened… Never made excuses, and she never accepted an excuse from us. And if we ever came up with an excuse, she always said, Do you have a brain? And if the answer was yes, then she said, Then you could have thought your way out of it.

The bottom line was that we have only ourselves to blame. We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities

I believe that many of our pressing racial problems will be taken care of when we who are among the minorities will stand on our own feet and refuse to look to anybody else to save us from our situation.

if two people think and say the same thing about everything, then one of them is not necessary.

We were very poor. But between the covers of books I could go anywhere, I could be anybody, I could do anything. I began to read about people of great accomplishment. As I read those stories, I began to see a connecting thread. I began to see that the person who had the most to do with you and what happened to you in life, is you. You make decisions. You decide how much energy you want to put behind that decision.

So differential treatment is a part of socialism just as it is in capitalism, but in the latter system, self-dependency and self-reliance play the larger role in one's advancement, whereas in the former system, currying favor with the powers that be and hoping to be noticed plays the larger role in advancement.

No, not A reason. Reason itself. I want to work something out in my own mind. I want to arrive at a conclusion because I've thought it through, not because I've been told to believe it.

you will be wiser to form your own ideas of the value of your holdings, based on full reports from the company about its operations and financial position.

La felicidad de quienes ansían la popularidad depende de los demás; la felicidad de los que persiguen el placer fluctúa con estados de ánimo que no pueden controlar; sin embargo, la felicidad de los sabios surge de sus propios actos libres. Marco Aurelio

The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts. —Marcus Aurelius

You have the luxury of being able to think for yourself.

You'd insist on your right to take control of your own emotional life, based on your experiences and your beliefs. But, when it comes to their financial lives, millions of people let Mr. Market tell them how to feel and what to do—despite the obvious fact that, from time to time, he can get nuttier than a fruitcake.

The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.

Thomas, I can pull down you're pants and point you downwind, but even with the Lord's help I can't pee for you.

To ask another man's blessing is simply to avoid taking the responsibility.