Quotes About Self-reliance

I can't give up and sacrifice my career, my future for a man, especially being engaged for so many years.

I spent so many years acting as my own booking agent and manager, just to get out there and play shows. You have to show you really want it.

I've never been told to do anything. I've never been hurried along by anybody - the kind of so-called 'pressure' of record labels doesn't really exist in my case.

Domesticated species don't command our respect the way their wild cousins often do. Evolution may reward interdependence, but our thinking selves continue to prize self-reliance.

It seems as though we can no longer imagine anyone but a professional or an institution or a product supplying our daily needs or solving our problems. This learned helplessness is, of course, much to the advantage of the corporations eager to step forward and do all this work for us. One

It seems as though we can no longer imagine anyone but a professional or an institution or a product supplying our daily needs or solving our problems. This learned helplessness is, of course, much to the advantage of the corporations eager to step forward and do all this work for us.

If you try to please everyone, you might as well kiss your ass goodbye. The

The more you play the victim, the more of a victim you'll become.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

I...think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so.

I have a mind that belongs wholly to itself, and is accustomed to go its own way. Having never until this hour had a master or governor imposed on me, I have advanced as far as I pleased, and at my own pace. This has made me slack and unfit for the service of others; it has made me useless to any but myself.

Would I fortify myself against the fear of death, it must be at the expense of Seneca: would I extract consolation for myself or my friend, I must borrow it from Cicero.  I might have found it in myself, had I been trained to make use of my own reason.  I do not like this relative and mendicant understanding; for though we could become learned by other men's learning, a man can never be wise but by his own wisdom.

We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make it our own. We are in this way much like him, who having need of fire, goes to a neighbour's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sits down to warm without remembering to carry any with him home.

I have my own laws and my own court to judge me, and I refer to these rather than elsewhere.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself.

ÇizilmiÅŸ bir yolda yürümek ve yaln?z kendi hayat?ndan sorumlu olmak ruh için büyük bir rahatl?kt?r.

Doya doya yaÅŸamak y?llar?n çokluÄŸuna deÄŸil, sizin gücünüze baÄŸl?d?r.

Cada uno de nosotros es más rico de lo que piensa, pero se nos habitúa al préstamo y a la mendicidad; se nos acostumbra a servirnos de lo ajeno más que de lo nuestro.

Needs could not bully her.

away, and she could carry a bag on each arm, providing

I don't want a man to validate me or take care of me. If I have a man in my life, I want him to enhance me.

Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.