Quotes About Self-reliance

Perhaps the most dangerous thing on Earth is the person who always follows. What if you follow the wrong person? The wrong Idea?

Lark did not know how her parents would behave in public. They never came to anything, even teacher conferences. They had basically skipped Lark's life. She didn't mind. She had made her own.

How can you be somebody else's savior, when you can't be your own?

Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.

Alone isn't a bad place to be, especially when it's the alternative to distrust and unhappiness, but

wonder Nettie hadn't told her to get out there

He raised an eyebrow. "You plan whatever you want. I'll be

So what if she had to wear another woman's underpants. She'd live and the sun wouldn't stop coming up in the morning.

She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world.

It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself - and he never asked anybody else to read to him.

Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when people offer a helping hand, it gets pushed away. People always want to help themselves first.

Wildflower: Don't let people walk all over you, Buttercup. It's your life. If you want something, you need to get out there and grab it by the horns because no one is going to give you what you want on a plate. Good girls always come second.

Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn't take advice from anyone around me about what I should or shouldn't do. I couldn't go running to mum and dad and I can't compare my marriage to anybody else's, we all follow our own rules.

People who constantly looked over their shoulders bumped into things. Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves.

If you want to do something, you have to do it now. If you want to say something, you have to say it now. And more importantly, you have to do it yourself. It's your life, you're the one who dies, you're the one who loses it.

Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves.

Wanting everything that's mine to actually be mine and not at the mercy of others and their mistakes.

Well, I'll tell you one thing, you can give him all the help in the world, but unless he learns to fend for himself, it'll be useless.

into things. Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves.

She's had no one to share these thoughts with, no one but herself, and she's driving herself crazy.

Oh don't let people walk all over you Buttercup. It's your life. If you want something, you need to get out there and grab it by the horns because no one is going to give you what you want on a plate. Good girls always come second.

Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves ~Gabe

I don't need anyone in my life who doesn't wanna be there.

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette