Quotes About Self-reliance

I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.

The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

If I'm going to pour that kind of love and energy and sweat and heartache, all that juju into something, I'm going to lean into my own projects before someone else's.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

You've got to stop thinking everyone's problems can be solved by falling in love.

We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without." p 167 love always found itself again.

You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.

You may be operating from the belief that you must do everything yourself because no one will ever be there for you. Or you may think that if you never speak up you'll avoid being rejected. Both these fears no longer apply to you today as an adult. If you never reach out for help, you will continue to deprive yourself.

Most survivors tend to be the care-giver rather than the care-receiver. We tend to be good at being spouses and parents, anticipating our loved ones needs, going the second mile when it came to self sacrifice. But seldom can we ask our loved ones to give to us. We fool ourselves into believing we don't need much.

Begin to nurture yourself…Some grew up expecting their romantic partners to give them the nurturing they hungered for, only to be disappointed. But our partners are not our parents, no matter how much we try to make them into parents. No one can make up for the deprivation you experienced, and no one should be expected to.

I hate asking directions. I am always afraid that the person I approach will step back and say, 'You want to go where? The centre of Brussels? Boy, are you lost. This is Lille, you dumb shit,' then stop other passers-by and say, 'You wanna hear something classic? Buddy, tell these people where you think you are,' and that I'll have to push my way through a crowd of people who are falling about and wiping tears of mirth from their eyes. So I trudged on.

I also said no to a first-aid kit, sewing kit, anti-snake-bite kit, $12 emergency whistle, and small orange plastic shovel for burying one's poop, on the grounds that these were unnecessary, too expensive, or invited ridicule.

The Power of One is a slogan--not a goal.

You don't need a weapon to protect yourself.

When there's nothing left to lose, and nothing else to prove, I'll be dancing with myself

Never be in thrall to anyone but your own wants and desires, because only you can make yourself happy. Fly your own flag, and be true to it. Your soul is the true captain.

Sometimes you had to not give a fuck what others thought or you'd never do anything to advance yourself.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Description of man. Dependence, desire for independence, needs.

She wouldn't be helpless, not ever, not if she could see a way out. She wouldn't allow that to happen. She could see that being helpless in a situation like this was dangerously close to becoming just plain less

Don't follow leaders.