Quotes About Self-reliance

You know how people say they're either like a cat or a dog? I feel like a cat. I just want to be alone. Isn't that weird? It's a lot to take in.

I can do what I want. And I always do, do what I want.

People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?

I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.'

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

Mother Dark had turned away. She had left them to fates of their own devising, and in so doing, she had taken away their privilege of blaming someone else.

Some people just don't like being told what they can and can't do." "Some people use that line to rationalize being assholes

Around Karsa Orlong, I suspect, only Karsa Orlong has his way.

Out onto the battered road, then, the city falling away behind them. After a time, Karsa glanced back and bared his teeth at her. 'Listen. That is better, yes?' 'I hear only the wind.' 'Better than ten thousand tireless contrivances.

An unwillingness. I can carry no one else's burden - not even for a moment. We are all pulled inside ourselves now, each alone...

It's a poor scholar who trusts anyone's judgement. Even and perhaps especially his own.

There had been no time when he'd felt alone. Alone in the frightened sense, that is. Solitude was born of decision, and could be as easily yielded when its purpose was done.

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms.

People either had strength or they didn't. The weak ones left her disgusted, welling with dark contempt. If they chose at all it was ever the wrong choice. They let the world break them time and again, then wondered – dull-eyed as this ox – why it was so cruel. But it wasn't the world that was the problem, was it? It was stepping into the stampede's path over and over again.

There were other things than love upon which to thrive." (MT, p140)

I'd go off alone, because you can't trust those who want to break the rules and you certainly can't trust those who make the rules so you do the only thing possible, you avoid the rules.

The flesh is always self-reliant, while the Spirit creates Christ-reliance. The flesh always trusts in its performance; the Spirit gives confidence in Christ's performance.

She shrugged. "Saving lives doesn't mean much to me," she said. "You have to protect what's yours. That's all that matters.

Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?