Quotes About Self-reliance

You're only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that's the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won't but you can't define yourself by their opinions.

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

She would be a tough one to win over. He saw it in the way she quickly hooded her feelings, snatching them in whenever they wandered. She didn't trust easily and depended only on herself

The key is to never let someone else tell you what to think.

After what I had been through, I needed something far steadier than love.

In 1925, a man named Harry Pidgeon completed a solo sailing trip around the world, becoming only the second person ever to do so. He had gotten the building plans for his boat and most of his nautical knowledge from books he had borrowed from the Los Angeles Public Library. His boat, The Islander, was nicknamed The Library Navigator.

The library might have been the first place I was ever given autonomy.

People who have been single for a long time tend to be independent. That's not necessarily bad, but you need to remember you're half of a team now.

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Because I have willed it. And I am not a fairy tale.

My feelings about women in general have been shaped by mother in particular--and Placidia, while nearly always loving and approachable to her children, raised us on a Spartan diet of independent thought, moral integrity, and self-reliance that has shaped our relations with the world, making our paths more difficult but the journey more meaningful.

Having people feel sorry for you wasn't the way to get along in this world.

I'm lost in space and I want to find a way home. Nobody else can get me back to the planet, so I have to do it myself.

if we are aiming to be genuinely self-reliant, we must learn to embrace uncertainty and anxiety. If we fail, there will be nothing to break our fall—nothing but whatever cushion we have managed to create for ourselves.

At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 magnum.

Although I do not like anyone intervening on my behalf, especially a man, I would have been very happy if Malloy had told Rodriguez to go fuck himself.

I don't want a boyfriend," I said. "I don't even want any more friends." "What about a fuck?" "That would be fine.

Stop Listening to Others.

Some walks you have to take alone.

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve.

Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at him Tell him that. Thats not nothing. Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.

I carefully lay out the provisions. One thin black sleeping bag that reflects body heat. A pack of crackers. A pack of dried beef strips. A bottle of iodine. A box of wooden matches. A small coil of wire. A pair of sunglasses. And a half-gallon plastic bottle with a cap for carrying water that's bone dry. No water. How hard would it have been for them to fill up the bottle?