Quotes About Self-reliance

So I have, accordingly, except for eight years, been self-employed.

He can work any hours he likes, travel at a whim, and engage in all manner of personal pursuits.

He knew that he would either be fired or left alone. He was left alone.

Se fue a Estados Unidos para meterse bajo el ala de su hermano. Sin embargo, los hermanos no tienen alas. Después de cierta edad te das cuenta de que o te apoyas en tus propias piernas o no hay nada que hacer.

Nick got home the first week in December, to find New York still wallowing in its post-Armistice euphoria. Service men were celebrities wherever they went, and nothing was too good for them-especially the ones who were wounded-until it came down to such practical matters as finding housing or a job...It too him awhile to come to the conclusion that all the talk about help for veterans was just that, and anything that was done for him would have to be done by himself.

A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.

In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.

My life does not belong to others and I am not here on earth to live up to someone else's expectations.

I accept my aloneness. That is, I accept that no one is coming to make my life right, or save me, or redeem my childhood, or rescue me from the consequences of my choices and actions.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.

No one is coming to save me; no one is coming to make life right for me; no one is coming to solve my problems. If I don't do something, nothing is going to get better.

Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness—that is, the absence of supportive feedback from their social environment.

No one owes me the fulfillment of my wishes.

take responsibility for finding it. It is only by grace of the second type

If capitalism offered a broader arena for self-esteem to operate in than had ever existed before, it also offered challenges that had no precedent in earlier, tribal societies—challenges to self-reliance, self-assertiveness, self-responsibility, and personal accountability. Capitalism created a market for the independent mind.

Genuine self-esteem is what we feel about ourselves when everything is not all right. This means, when we are challenged by the unexpected, when others disagree with us, when we are flung back on our own resources, when the cocoon of the group can no longer insulate us from the tasks and risks of life, when we must think, choose, decide, and act and no one is guiding us or applauding us. At such moments our deepest premises reveal themselves.

It is not what "they" think; it is what I know. What I know is more important to me than a mistaken belief in someone else's mind.

In the ultimate sense, I accept my aloneness. That is, I accept that no one is coming to make my life right, or save me, or redeem my childhood, or rescue me from the consequences of my choices and actions.

To practice self-responsibility is to think for oneself.

Self-reliance and self-responsibility were seen as supremely appropriate in this new order of things, in contrast to the conformity and obedience more valued in earlier, tribal societies. Independence became an economically adaptive virtue.

Independence is reliance upon our own mind and judgment, the acceptance of intellectual responsibility for our own existence.

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

In the end, both sides wanted what the Pilgrims had been looking for in 1620: a place unfettered by obligations to others.