Quotes About Self-reliance

I am perhaps excessively independent and generally reclusive, and I hated having to ask people for help, but I could see that this was yet another opportunity to work on a weakness. Free Rider was stretching me in ways I had never anticipated.

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

life's burdens may only be overcome by a summoning of inner resources: by a dependence not upon others, but upon the qualities of spirit and mind.

She could not give him power over her. She gave no man that. "I don't deal in bonds, sir," she called back over her shoulder as she fled for the stables. "They're too much like chains.

We aren't the kind of people who talk about our problems.

while other people can bring insight and support (and trouble and pain) into our lives, no-one can save us: we can only save ourselves.

A relationship doesn't work until you accept that it may break up tomorrow, and if it does you'll be all right.

No woman should build her life waiting for a man to come along and save her. It's a tragic waste of brains and talent.

Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind.

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.

Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention.

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

No one can give you the strength of character necessary... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.

You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.

Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.

I want to deal with the truth and a proper education that will not allow us to be educated and then come out and beg another man for a job when you should be creating a job for yourself.

Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.