Quotes About Self-reliance

I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.

why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.

I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.

The inside story on a man was that if he wanted to be successful, he must become a rugged individualist, but then should make some adjustments.

I don't expect politicians to solve anybody's problems. We've got to take the world by the horns and solve our own problems. The world owes us nothing, each and every one of us, the world owes us not one single thing. Politicians or whoever.

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.

Whatever your resources, the world was yours to the exact degree to which you summoned the fortitude and faith to step away from convention and orthodoxy and invent your own life. Tay

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her own possum, cut her own cotton, fix her own roof, make her own whiskey, walk in her own shoes, and speak her mind, tell her own story. A black woman. Ready for the journey. The Journey.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

I will blaze my own trail.

A brave man's hand can speak for itself; it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

She preferred those occupations that require no companion. She walked alone, rad alone, sat alone in the sittingroom or in the ray of faint sunshine which sometimes penetrated the little courtyard ab about one o'clock. She was less open-hearted and confiding than before; it was as if someone -- not necessarily Jonathan Strange -- had disappointed her and she was determined to be more independent in future.

Thus, our keepers. As for finders—well, we had to be our own finders.

I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Shh, May,' Felicity said soothingly, glancing behind her. She absolutely did not want Rafe to come out and say something stupidly noble. They were on their own - again - and they would simply have to make do.

The mother of all problems and conflicts lies within you, and that is expecting things from others.

At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.

The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.

Whatever. I prefer our kind of crazy—we pretty much only screw with ourselves.

I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.

I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man.

I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.

Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.