Quotes About Self-reliance

Contrary to popular wisdom, you can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Whether you acknowledge it or not, you had help.

El poder de decisión le llega al hombre cuando ya no le hace falta para nada; cuando ni un solo día puede dejar de guiar un carro o picar piedra si no quiere quedarse sin comer. ¿Para qué valía, entonces, la capacidad de decisión de un hombre, si puede saberse? La vida era el peor tirano conocido.

If you take your happiness and put it in someone's hands, sooner or later, she is going to break it. If you give your happiness to someone else, she can always take it away. Then if happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love, you are responsible for your happiness.

You will find that you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.

Imagine living your life without the fear of being judged by others. You no longer rule your behavior according to what others may think about you. You are no longer responsible for anyone's opinion. You have no need to control anyone, and no one controls you, either.

Be responsible for every choice you make in your life. This is your life; it's nobody else's life, and you will find that it's nobody else's business what you do with your life.

Most of the time when we tell our children how to live their lives, it's because we don't respect them. We feel sorry for them, and we try to do for them what they should do for themselves.

No volveré a ser la Víctima».

you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.

La domesticación es tan poderosa que, en un determinado momento de nuestra vida, ya no necesitamos que nadie nos domestique.

No esperes que los demás te digan la verdad, porque ellos también se mienten a sí mismos. Tienes que confiar en ti y decidir si crees o no lo que alguien te dice.

If you take your happiness and put it in someone's hands, sooner or later, she is going to break it. If you give your happiness to someone else, she can always take it away. Then if happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love, you are responsible for your happiness. We can never make anyone responsible for our own happiness

The domestication is so strong that at a certain point in our lives we no longer need anyone to domesticate us. We don't need Mom or Dad, the school or the church to domesticate us. We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator.

No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never—and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself. They will make the offer and they will give of their own accord

Pa što ako nam se ne svi?a podignuti prst, dovoljno je da mu okrenemo le?a. Tako sam i u?inio i krenuo iz dvorišta ponovno na ulicu.

When the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

This had always been repugnant to him, and he rebelled against that servitude by at least refusing to give women his soul, by safeguarding his freedom and solitude

O que distingue o autodidata daquele que estudou não é a extensão dos conhecimentos, mas os diferentes graus de vitalidade e de confiança em si.

Who Protects the Consumer? It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chuses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens. —Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, vol. I, [>]

Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

Now, I love men, but I don't need to always be talking about them.

I'm not like a car you can fix up. I'm never gonna run right" Bella

Nobody loved her and she wouldn't have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.