Quotes About Self-reliance

Gabriel Oak: It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

Biblioll College. Sir,—I have read your letter with interest; and, judging from your description of yourself as a working-man, I venture to think that you will have a much better chance of success in life by remaining in your own sphere and sticking to your trade than by adopting any other course. That, therefore, is what I advise you to do. Yours faithfully, T. Tetuphenay. To Mr. J. Fawley, Stone-mason.

I want somebody to tame me; I am too independent; and you would never be able to, I know.

Hang it, I am not going to feel responsible for my deeds and passions if there's nobody to be responsible to; and if I were you, my dear, I wouldn't either.

It wouldn't do, Mr Oak. I want somebody to tame me; I am too independent; and you would never be able to, I know. Oak cast his eyes down the field in a way implying that it was useless to attempt argument.

Bathsheba había alcanzado ese punto en el que la gente deja de preocuparse por lo que los demás puedan pensar.

In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her.

HOW DO you behave when you know the conventional honors are dross?

In making friends she was ever wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it.

Most people who become millionaires have confidence in their own abilities. They do not spend time worrying about whether or not their parents were wealthy. They do not believe that one must be born wealthy.

THEIR ADULT CHILDREN ARE ECONOMICALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT.

Most people who become millionaires have confidence in their own abilities. They do not spend time worrying about whether or not their parents were wealthy. They do not believe that one must be born wealthy. Conversely, people of modest backgrounds who believe that only the wealthy produce millionaires are predetermined to remain non-affluent.

It is not her intention to create another generation of weak sisters.

PAWs need to achieve, to create wealth, to become financially independent, to build something from scratch.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. -Thomas Jefferson

The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.

The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves and suffice for our own happiness.

How do you expect to arrive at the end of your journey if you take the road to another man's city?(100)

Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more than an echo of the words of someone else. There is no point in being a moon to somebody else's sun, still less is there any justification for our being moons of one another, and hence darkness to one another, not one of us being a true sun.

THE most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men. He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow. The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is the more he is convinced of his own infallibility.

And everything seemed to conspire to encourage me to cut myself off from everybody else and go my own way.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.