Quotes About Self-reliance

Monopoly money; it's not legal tender in that sphere where we have to do our work. In fact, the more energy we spend stoking up on support from colleagues and loved ones, the weaker we become and the less capable of handling our business.

Here's another test. Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it? If

The power to take charge was in my hands; all I had to do was believe it.

When we truly understand that the tribe doesn't give a damn, we're free. There is no tribe, and there never was. Our lives are entirely up to us.

the ordeal had been rendered tolerable, now that I could tell myself it was my own idea.

The professional cannot allow the actions of others to define his reality. Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working. Short of a family crisis or the outbreak of World War III, the professional shows up, ready to serve the gods.

The linebacker and the Army Ranger go into action as part of a team. But the artist and the entrepreneur enter combat alone. I take my hat off to every man or woman who does this.

After all, what is ''a man'' nowadays? Somebody who stands alone, independent of all ties.

Our society seems to say that a real man needs and wants nobody.

Nothing wrong with being single when you can do as you please without objection or complaint. The presence of the fur ball was icing on the cake.

I felt a jolt of pure joy. It was one of those occasions when I suddenly realized how happy I was. Life was good. I was female, single, with money in my pocket and enough gas to get home. I had nobody to answer to and no ties to speak of. I was healthy, physically fit, filled with energy.

Nothing wrong with being single when you can do as you please without objection or complaint.

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.

It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my energy from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert.

I said, Where's all that delivering God's supposed to do? He snorted. You're right, the only deliverance is the one we get for ourselves. The Lord doesn't have any hands and feet but ours. That doesn't say much for the Lord. It doesn't say much for us, either.

You don't have to put your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and the other things we need to get through life, she said. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.

Every girl comes into the world with varying degrees of ambition," she said, "even if it's only the hope of not belonging body and soul to her husband.

My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it's the other way round.

Ee come a time when eby tub haffa res pon e won bottom, said Hepzibah, then translated: At some point in life, you have to stand on your own two feet.

that strange turbulence that rises when you begin to wash up on the island of your own little self and you don't see how you could ever sustain yourself there.

Do not leave it to fate. You must be the one who does the resurrecting.

Miss Sarah never tattled. She tugged the rug over

take credit, but it's all you. On a balmy afternoon