Quotes About Self-reliance

I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.

I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.

If she had troubles she must keep them to herself, and if life was difficult it would not make it easier to confess herself beaten.

We know too much about people in these days; we hear too much. Our ears, our minds, our mouths, are stuffed with personalities. Don't mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

She likes to do everything for herself and has no belief in any one's power to help her.

Her real offense was having a mind of her own.

I welcomed the consciousness that I was charged with much to do, and I caused it to be known as well that, left thus to myself, I was quite remarkably firm.

When you are embarrassed, do as you think best, and you will do very well. When you are in a difficulty, judge for yourself.

From lapsing into eagerness on this point she earnestly prayed she might be delivered; she held that a woman ought to be able to live to herself, in the absence of exceptional flimsiness, and that it was perfectly possible to be happy without the society of a more or less coarse-minded person of another sex.

Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all. I don't wish to be a mere sheep in the flock; I wish to choose my fate and know something of human affairs beyond what other people think it compatible with propriety to tell me.

I don't see what harm there is in my wishing not to tie myself. I don't want to begin life by marrying. There are other things a woman can do.

I must live for myself at last, while there is still a handful left of me

She answered that she liked standing up and

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

They cut the umbilical cord, give you a slap on the ass, and presto! you're out in the world, adrift, a ship without a rudder.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Today I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity-I belong to the earth!

To wander farther was to wander alone, to rely wholly upon oneself.

Maybe it doesn't make sense but it's my way. I can't navigate any other way

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Buatlah keputusan, maka anda akan bebas.

I had the whole road to myself, for no one was yet stirring, and I walked on, with a slouching, dogged gait. The gray shooting-jacket was on my back, and from the end of my brother's rifle hung a small bundle of my clothes. My fingers worked moodily at the stock and trigger, and I thought that this indeed was the way to begin life, with a gun in your hand!

But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.