Quotes About Self-reliance

A woman alone who needs assistance is actually far better off choosing someone and asking for help, as opposed to waiting for an unsolicited approach. The person you choose is nowhere near as likely to bring you hazard as is the person who chooses you.

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

Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.

No one will care more about your life than you do and no one is better qualified to chart its course than you are. You are the expert.

Don't ask for help. Don't need anyone else, because they won't be there for you.

Never worry what other people think of you, because no one ever thinks of you.

No one can make you fail. If you fail, it--it's because YOU failed.

You have within you,right now,everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

To be clear, she always admired hard workers: she just didn't see the point of laboring to benefit someone else. "If you're going to work hard," she used to say, "you might as well work hard for yourself.

I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.

I don't think you need a man in this world anymore; I think you just need yourself and a little love and a bath.

Don't treat me like a little girl

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

They want you to see them as fragile. By so doing, they don't have to put themselves back together. Don't

Have faith in your own thoughts.

She was not someone's sister, she was not someone's child. She was Dolores and Dolores was the good guys.

make my decisions based on what I intended, not just on what someone else wanted me to do or what I thought would please them.

I always felt like a burden, an "extra mouth to feed." I rarely remember feeling loved. From as early as I can remember, I knew I was on my own.

There was no time for nurturing. I was always trying not to bother her or worry her. My mother felt distant, cold to the needs of this little girl. All of the energy went to keeping her head above water, surviving. I always felt like a burden, an "extra mouth to feed." I rarely remember feeling loved. From as early as I can remember, I knew I was on my own.

I have established a very good rule, which I pass on to you: Never do anything just because other people do it.