Quotes About Self-reliance

I've spent so much of my life travelling alone, so I keep things to myself.

I don't mind travelling. I'm independent, so I gotta get on the grind.

I learnt to manage my own money, a quality which I am working on since a long while now. I invest most of my money in myself either in learning and/or travelling.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Don't treat me like a little girl.

My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.

None of them going to treat me bad, honey, I'm too strict for that.

I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go.

I've always treated my career like independent. Everything that I got is because of myself, my own endorsements, my own touring myself.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Nobody wants to feel controlled or treated like a child.

When you're 16 and when you're 17, you're kind of walking that fine line of being an adult and legally being able to look out for yourself, while being able to look out for yourself and being treated as a child.

I never borrowed money from Mom. I lived at home, but my parents never helped me. I worked hard and moved out. I treated my blog like a business; hard work is important.

I think as long as you're going out and treating everything with respect - you're not going in there acting like a helpless girl - as long as you don't go in there demanding special treatment, I think you won't receive any special treatment.

I just want to be myself. I want to act in films and not expect any special treatment. I carry my own bags on sets, I don't have assistants around me.

Sometimes people aren't happy with the way life treats them. That's their problem.

My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'

Can you really learn to knit from a diagram? Try it. Do you want to learn to ski or surf by yourself? You could drown or run into a tree.

I learned to kick trees with my bare feet to strengthen my legs.

Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.

My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

I don't follow trends, so I make my own.