Quotes About Self-reliance

Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves.

You, far more than the market or the economy, are the most important factor in your long-term investment success.

Isn't it marvelous to discover that you're the one you've been waiting for? That you are your own freedom?

Romantic love is the story of how you need another person to complete you. It's an absolutely insane story. My experience is that I need no one to complete me. As soon as I realize that, everyone completes me.

As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there"—as long as you think that anyone or anything else is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It

I cannot need what I don't have, so I always have everything I need, and everyone does.

If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn't want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man.

I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him.

Everything I need is in my head, and no one can take that away.

My share. I hate owing anyone anything. Don't you?

a woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgements.

Los dioses no vienen a componer las cosas que nos salieron mal. Fíjese en la historia del hombre, y se dará cuenta de que siempre estuvimos solos

We're worried - and for good reason - about what it means for the human future if we have only ourselves to rely upon.

In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

A single girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions or she'll be lost!

But, honey, you know as well as I do that a single girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions or she'll be lost!

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don't matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

You don't go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.

You either have a plan or you become part of somebody else's plan.

Worry is betting against yourself.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

Your growling and posturing might impress the sort of women you're accustomed to consorting with,but quite frankly, I find them to be a bit of a bore. Portia to Julian