Quotes About Self-reliance

Der ganze Plan ist in seiner Grundform unendlich einfach (...): Man gebe uns die Souveränität eines für unsere gerechten Volksbedürfnisse genügenden Stückes der Erdoberfläche, alles andere werden wir selbst besorgen.

What good would it do for the Kates of the world to cry? They have learned that tears do not bring relief or change of circumstance. There is no one to wipe their tears, no one to assuage their grief.

What a wretched thing it was to be born poor and not to have any one to do anything for you and not to be able to do so very much for yourself!

A real man—a financier—was never a tool. He used tools. He created. He led. Clearly

Eddy, I've made my own way since I was a kid, and when I marry it's going to be because the man I love and a girl named Tina are traveling together in the same direction at approximately the same speed, and each under his own power. I won't be steered, towed, nor provided with an icebreaker. (...)

Je ne vous donnerai qu'une seule formule : Personne ne sait de quoi vous souffrez, si ce n'est vous-même. Personne d'autre que vous ne peut trouver remède à votre mal. Personne, en dehors de vous, ne peut se rendre compte si le remède agit.

no one knows what's really wrong with you but you; no one can find a cure for it but you; no one but you can identify it as a cure; and once you find it, no one but you can do anything about it.

I said this before and I will have to say it again, when you come right down to it there is not a thing a man needs than a way to fill his belly and let somebody take care of all his thinking, he don't have to if he don't want to.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice.

Liberation and salvation can't come from anyone other than yourself. You can't wait for somebody to help you. You are your own island. Go back to your in-breath and out-breath. Touch the peace within you, and you can see more deeply.

I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything.

It's not for other people to judge me.

We have our own agency; we should be judged by our own work.

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

I will be my own kind of senator using my own best judgment and my own experience.

I follow my own mind and judgment.

For a while, I drank the juice - I did things the way everybody else said to. I listened to their advice. But it didn't work.

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.