Quotes About Self-reliance

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

I can do whatever I want.

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess.

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.

I still have issues around forgetting that it's my life and if I want to do something, I can do it.

Your destiny is in your hands. Creating the life you want is only, and always, up to you.

I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I'm not going to worry about it.

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.

I'm my own person, and people can say whatever they want. I'm still going to be the person that I am.

If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.

I like to be directed, but when I'm flying and I'm on fire, I don't want someone coming and getting in my way just because they feel like they need to.

I carry a weapon. I got a death threat a few years ago and was really scared. But I don't want bodyguards. I am my own security.

Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.