Quotes About Self-reliance

We cannot learn to fly by following the tracks left by birds in the sand. We must find our own wings and soar.

Jesse: But—but are you okay? Tulip: Yeah, fine. I checked out the bad guy's place and shot them up a little bit, you know. There were quite a lot of them, and one guy nearly got me with a throwing knife— But I know you'll be cool with that, because you can trust me to handle myself. Let's go.

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.

Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

You love them all the more for their concern, but wish they'd get it through their heads that there are some people who don't need the constant companionship of other human beings in order to feel that their life has meaning." From "...He Didn't Even Leave a Note...

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

Prepare Your Child for the Road, Not the Road for Your Child

Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.

must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.

If you have to beg, then beg. If you have to barter, then barter. If you have to be creative, then be creative. Just don't be a victim of your circumstance.

A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter.

You have the responsibility to shape your life. You are the person who pushes yourself forward or holds yourself back. The power to succeed or fail is yours alone.

You can't buy motivation. You can't obtain it from someone else. "Motivation is something nobody else can give you," Joe DiMaggio said. "Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you, and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.

Their outlook on life is not that "things happen to them". Their outlook on life is that "things happen BECAUSE of them". They are where they are in their lives at this very moment either because of the things they have done, or the things they haven't done! This is a really great attitude to have, and it is an attitude that most winners in life have.

True charisma will come from taking charge of each situation by saying "I'm responsible", but then not seeking any praise or approval afterwards.

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.

Not hope that he would be rescued--that was gone. But hope in his knowledge. Hope in the fact that he could learn and survive and take care of himself. Tough hope, he thought that night. I am full of tough hope.

A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter

If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you.

No one saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path but Buddhas clearly show the way.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought." —William Wordsworth