Quotes About Self-reliance

No one wishes to be "rescued" with someone else's beliefs.

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

but i am what i am. woman. alone amid all this noise.

He's used to the freedom of neglect; he likes it.

Good sense appears the most underhand of tactics to a man who has no reserves of his own to draw upon.

Als je eenmaal hebt geaccepteerd dat niemand je ooit zal begrijpen en je hebt dat overweldigende gevoel van eenzaamheid overwonnen, dan heeft het wel iets prettigs, eerlijk gezegd. Jij bent de enige deskundige in je eigen kleine wereldje, en je kunt doen waar je zin in hebt.

If she did not like her fate, it was up to her to change it.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one.

The quandary with life is you're halfway through before you realize it's a do-it-yourself project.

Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance

Let a man lift himself by his own Self alone, let him not lower himself; for the Self alone is the friend of oneself and this Self alone is the enemy of oneself (5).

God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.

The part I always loved about golf was that you could go out there by yourself and be totally responsible for what happened or didn't happen.

Only the man who remains free from all and everything augments and sustains freedom on this earth.

To be free of family and familiar surroundings.

Solo colui che riesce a mantenere la propria libertà rispetto a tutto e a tutti, conserva e moltiplica la libertà sulla terra.

He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.

She did not want to dominate, but, on the other hand, she would not allow herself to be dominated or even influenced by others.

And although our time gave me the opportunity like anyone else, I never got my hands on the property or assets of another Frenchman. Only alone have I lived, whether in war or peace, and I have never demanded anything of someone without remunerating him justly. I have my law and my own courts of justice, and they pass sentence on me.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termit-like.

I did all that with my little hatchet.

All at once John was strong enough to bear the impatience of others, and with that the game was at an end. He moved at his own pace. He gave orders the way a carpenter drives nails, each straight and deep until it held. He paused where he wanted to, and not where others interrupted him.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.