Quotes About Self-reliance

The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

Every man for himself.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

Living by yourself is better than living with a bad woman.

A man travels fastest who travels alone.

No human being should learn from another. Each individual should develop his own powers to the uttermost, not try to imitate those of someone else. I do not wish you to be a second and inferior Poirot. I wish you to be the supreme Hastings. And you are the supreme Hastings. In you, Hastings, I find the normal mind almost perfectly illustrated.

You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people.

What a person really is, is only apparent when the test comes—that is, the moment when you stand or fall on your own feet.

I help those who can help themselves.

I can look after her all right, sir," said Tommy, at exactly the same minute as Tuppence said, "I can take care of myself.

Well, well. I know all we medicos hand these things out freely nowadays. Nobody tells young women who can't sleep to count sheep, or get up and eat a biscuit, or write a couple of letters and then go back to bed. Instant remedies, that's what people demand nowadays. Sometimes I think it's a pity we give them to them. You've got to learn to put up with things in life. All very well to stuff a comforter into a baby's mouth to stop it crying. Can't go on doing that all a person's life.

Ser Justase, nekad je dovoljno da date ?oveku dovoljno konopca i pustite ga da se sam obesi.

I mind my own business and I expect other people to mind theirs. I don't listen to gossip and tittle-tattle.

You shall know all that I know, but I would prefer that you should come at the truth by your own efforts — not by my leading you by the hand.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Don't be his story. Don't be anyone else's story. Be your own story. Protect yourself.

The only thing worse for a woman than making herself dependent on a man—'" Nell finishes her sentence: "'—is to have a child dependent on her.

I'm my own boss and my boss is a total ass.

Don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

Deve farcela con le sue forze." "Può darsi che sia vero, ma questo non significa che debba restare solo.

She finally managed to free her fingers from his. "I know how to run without you holding my hand!

No one has a gun to your head. You are the primary agenda-setter in your life.