Quotes About Self-reliance

Absolute rules are for unthinking people. Sheep require fences—humans do not.

Arrakis is ours because we have taken it," Selim announced. "We have learned to survive under the harshest circumstances, without depending upon the benevolence of strangers or trade with offworld intruders.

It is easy to look backward and cast blame on others, but more difficult to gaze ahead and take responsibility for your own decisions and your own future. —GRIFFIN HARKONNEN, final dispatch from Arrakis It

When alone, a man never had to worry about trusting his companions.

When I need somebeast to tell me m'name I'll jolly well ask m'self. Pish tush! The very idea, tellin' a chap his own moniker!

If you don't like it, then y'can jolly well lump it.

There's an old saying, Zill. Freedom can't be given, only earned.

Alana, we are soldiers, not fucking damsels in distress.

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.

If it's to be, it's up to me!

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself. Everything you are today, or ever will be in the future, is up to you. Your life today is the sum total result of your choices, decisions and actions up to this point. You can create your own future by changing your behaviors. You can make new choices and decisions that are more consistent with the person you want to be and the things you want to accomplish with your life.

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue. These

A partir de este punto, vea y piense en sí mismo como dueño y señor de su propio destino, absolutamente al mando de su propia vida.

As Henry Ford II said, "Never complain, never explain." No one makes you do anything or feel anything. You are where you are and what you are because you have decided to be there. Everything that you are or ever will be is entirely up to you. If there is any effect in your life that you're not happy about, it is solely up to you to change the causes. You are completely responsible.

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else.

accept complete responsibility for yourself, your life, and your results, with no excuses

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.

Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.

How I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe.

Deus, quando você irá criar uma mulher que se sinta satisfeita com sua própria pessoa, um ser humano pleno, não o apêndice de alguém?

There's nothing like a rich man's son who's done a little starving, just enough to scare him into becoming a self-made man.