Quotes About Self-reliance

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself then he has naught Not to say the things that he truly feels And not the words of someone who kneels Let the record show I took all the blows and did it my way.

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

I'm not really the sacrificing type.

My fist flew forward. "Nicely done!" said Eldric, although it had glanced off of his palm like a pebble. "Why aren't you begging for mercy?" "I make a point never to do so," said Eldric. It puts one at a disadvantage.

Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone." I shouted my laughter to the stars.

We were born in charge of our own being, our own personality. Other people's personalities are beyond our control.

The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.

the dole replaced the former reliance on hard work and self-betterment that had led earlier generations to improve their lot.

He who would be free must strike the first blow.

The thing about wings is that they are yours and yours alone. You cannot inherit them from an indulgent father; you cannot buy them in Savile Row; you cannot win them in a lucky draw; you cannot marry them along with a pretty girl; you cannot steal them on a shoplifting spree. You cannot even earn them in a team event. You fight and you struggle, you study and you learn, you practice and you persevere, and finally you do it alone, high above the clouds, in a single-seater.

We have a belief that we need not believe in, no dogmas, no ritual, no mythology, no church, no priest, no holy book--what a relief!

Every man paddle his own canoe.

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

From the day when battery-run voices began broadcasting old speeches to battery-run listeners, the beast has been talking to itself. Having swallowed everyone and everything outside itself, the beast becomes its own sole frame of reference. It entertains itself, exploits itself and wars on itself. It has reached the end of its Progress, for there is nothing left for it to progress against except itself.

Si actuas como si supieras lo que estas haciendo, puedes hacer lo que quieras.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

I know my limits. You don't ever need to worry about me." "Thanks, Scot. I'll remind myself of that next time I see you looking like a flipped turtle.

There is no ultimate arbiter of right or wrong. In the whole vast universe, there is nobody who knows what you should do in any given situation any better than you do — not your mom and dad, not your best friend Alice, not the president or the pope, and certainly not God.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

You'll keep making wrong decisions if you keep worrying about what other people think.