Quotes About Self-reliance

When you walk the walk, whether successful or not, you feel more indifferent and robust to people's opinion, freer, more real.

Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least.

What I learned on my own I still remember.

You don't become completely free just by avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

you have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits

Being self-owned is a state of mind.

You stand above the rat race and the pecking order, not outside of it, if you do so by choice.

You have far more control over your life if you decide on your criterion by yourself.

Only the autodidacts are free. And not just in school matters—those who decommoditize, detouristify their lives.

It took five years for Yevgenia to graduate from the "egomaniac without anything to justify it, stubborn and difficult to deal with" category to "persevering, resolute, painstaking, and fiercely independent

not accepting other people's wisdom as gospel.

Nero, seu otário. Não se deixe iludir pelo dinheiro. São apenas números. Ser dono do próprio nariz é um estado de espírito".

Every man believes himself to be quite different

but I am free to choose a profession where I am not a slave to external pressure.

Este mult mai dificil s? pierzi într-un joc pe care l-ai pus la punct tu însuÈ›i.

someone who cannot be squeezed into doing something he would otherwise never do.

didn't care what my parents (and grandfather) thought of me.

The ultimate freedom lies in not having to explain why you did something.

It was a barbell—play it safe at school and read on your own, have zero expectation from school.

When you don't have debt you don't care about your reputation in economics circles—and somehow it is only when you don't care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one. Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least.

Stay robust to how others treat you.

It is more difficult to be a loser in a game you set up yourself.

when you leave people alone, they tend to settle for practical reasons.

Leave people alone under a good structure and they will take care of things.