Quotes About Self-reliance

There is nothing to prove to anyone, just concentrate on your own needs.

You are human, so stop acting as if though you are a sheep and start thinking for yourself.

Your life is in your hands. Only YOU have the capacity to turn it into a rosy path or a thorn filled one. Increase your vibrational output with Cosmic Ordering and your future will be rosy.

Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.

No need to steal someone's thunder, with Cosmic Ordering you can make your own.

No matter what tight corner I was in, I was capable of getting myself out of it … not God!

If you cannot get a job then make a living for yourself.

I'd rather be wrong on my own than be right on somebody else's say-so.

It's hard for people to stampede when they're strutting

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

Commit to not going back to the store no matter what. If you run out of something like a spice or an accompanying vegetable, substitute with something else.

Okay, here's the tough part, but we know you can do it. If you run out of an ingredient or forget an item, substitute it with something else, borrow it from a neighbor, or make a different meal—just don't go back to the store. You can do it—it may take some time to perfect your system, but eventually it will be as easy as breathing.

The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.

Each of you be a light unto yourself; betake yourself to no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth. Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself.

THE POWER TO END ENABLING. Some people say yes all the time in order to save other people—to cover for them when they won't step up to the plate. Stop. Your no forces someone to step into the place he is being called to. Even if you let him fail once . . . you are helping him in the long run. Your yes is only delaying the inevitable.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Mr. McKenna: In the unlikely event that you achieved this of your own accord without any outside assistance, you're to be commended. Otherwise, disregard the accolade.

Today's a new day. It's your day. You shape it. Don't let it be shaped by someone else's ignorance or fear.

He was the only man I ever saw who ran his own interference.

When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you're truly free.

Sometimes, when I couldn't afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn't ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.

You should try fighting for what you believe in sometime, Jack. Not for a company, or a nation, or for anyone else.