Quotes About Self-reliance

I'm not at all the sort of woman who kisses strange dragons when she comes across them.

I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.

Saya berkesimpulan bahwa seseorang hanya bisa merintis kehidupannya dengan mengandalkan kekuatannya sendiri. Paul Lennon

To cook and clean yourself is intolerable. But to have someone else do it is exhausting.

The white man will come to destroy us again. His own history proves this. Just as he destroyed the so-called American Indian, just as he enslaved us, just as he exploited the Chinese, just as he drove the Mexicans out of Texas, surely he will come to this place. We must prepare ourselves or we will die. If you doubt what I say, just remember the riots in Tulsa. Just as the police didn't save the people of Greenwood, the police won't save us. We must save ourselves.

The firm of Strange had not been built on softness; what you stole from it, you were welcome to keep.

What others THINK you NEED to be or NEED to do is none of your business. Live your own truth without attachment to anything…

We have to make our own opportunities. The world does not deliver kindnesses.

I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children marriage I have a bit of an issue with.

A go-getter is a cowboy who forgot to hobble his horse.

The only thing that mattered was that the quarter century or so he had remaining would be his life, to live out as he chose and in his own best interests. Nothing took precedence over that: not work, not friendships, not relationships with women. Those were all components of his life, and valuable ones, but they did not define it or control it. That was up to him, and him alone.

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

Everyone calls him Blockhead No one sings his praises Or takes him to heart... That is the kind of person I want to be

Then the minute the first symptoms show up, they say, "I thought the Lord healed me. I guess He didn't." And when they say that, they open the door to the devil. Instead of rising up and meeting the devil with the Word of God and commanding his power to be broken, they yield. Why? Because they have no foundation of God's Word in their lives. They are depending on others to carry them on their prayers and faith.

I made up my mind I'm not going to pay attention to what people think. I've done that too long—all my life. I'm not going to live that way anymore.

You understand? If you can read you can cook. You can always feed yourselves. You remember that.

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it.

You can't expect men to appreciate you. Sometimes they will, sometimes they won't. Even women won't always appreciate what you do, so why should the men understand you any better? The only person who will always know what you did, and why you did it, is yourself. If you try to do what's right, that should be enough. Remind yourself of that when it seems as if it isn't.

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.