Quotes About Self-reliance

Why are you looking around for help? Do you believe that help will come from outside? What is to come is created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfil the way that is in you.

Woe betide those who live by way of examples! Life is not with them. If you live according to an example, you thus live the life of that example, but who should live your own life if not yourself? So live yourselves.

Unless he stands on his own feet the so-called objective values profit him nothing since they only serve as a substitute for character

He is incapable of living his own life and finding the character that belongs to him.

Monica had never been blessed with a road map. Her own parents had not provided one, certainly not for a situation like this. She always envied those who seemed to have a map, a plan, a destination, something inside that provided a framework. In times of confusion and despair, she had little to fall back on and no one to call on for advice or support. Certainly not her mother. And who knew where her father was? It

In hard times you don't share your secrets and you sure don't borrow trouble.

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What we do not earn ourselves," he said, "is never truly ours. It can always be taken away. But even if we lose everything we work for, the achievement is ours forever.

No one owes you a great career, it argues; you

I never understood the joy of watching other people play sports, can't stand tourist attractions, don't sit on the beach unless there's a really big sand castle that needs to be made, [and I] don't care about what the celebrities and politicians are doing. . . . Instead of all this, I seem to get satisfaction only from making stuff. Or maybe a better description would be solving problems and making improvements.

It's not about usefulness, it's about autonomy.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

Whatever my destiny is, it's mine and nobody else's.

My desire to return home, if it was still home, on my own two feet. The same way I had left it behind.

What I was about to attempt was a thing that only I could do. And I would do it on my own.

Sometimes you have to be proactive. You can't just sit there, waiting for things to happen. For things to change. Sometimes you have to take things into your own hands.

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.

Your success is 100 percent your responsibility.

Better alone than badly accompanied.

All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.

I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.