Quotes About Self-reliance

Finding that financial independence away from a broken relationship is probably one of the most powerful places a woman can get to.

Both my mother and father worked for everything that they had.

If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

You start comparing yourself to other people, you end up trying to be that person. You've got to be your own person, do it your own way. You can be motivated by somebody, but you don't have to take after them.

I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether school work or a sport or even a hobby.

I like to win my own way, and I like to lose my own way. I believe motivation comes from within.

There is no editor or agent or person with a sack of money that will magically come down and give you motivation to make your thing.

I'm a very motivated person. I don't need extra motivation.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

I don't need much motivation.

Hate equals motivation. Five years ago, I was known as Doc Rivers's son, and now I'm known as my own person, and that's through hard work.

To me, in this league, if your only motivation is what everyone else says, you're probably not going to be here that long.

It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently.

A motorcycle is an independent thing.

The motto of my life is, 'The best advice is no advice at all.'

The proverb warnes you'',''dont bite the hand that feeds you,''but maybe you should,''if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

In the history of the twentieth century, the principal dramatis personae were National and International Socialisms, better known as Nazism and Communism. Their citizens evaded the duty of self-responsibility by claiming to be following orders. Following orders -attributed to or issued by God, the State, Science, Medicine-is always the easy way out. Refusing to do so requires self-reliance and resisting temptations and threats.

Non lessi la prima estate, zappai fagioli

It's a new world, right enough, a world for the taking, and we're the ones who know how to live in it without having to pretend it's a district of England or France or Spain.

But there's a school of thought that says if you're going to go down in flames anyway, you might as well be the one lighting the matches.

What about you, Commander? Why do *you* seek higher rank?' It was a question many had asked over the years. Thrawn had asked it of himself. The answer never seemed to satisfy the questioner. 'Because there are problems that must be solved. Some cannot be solved by anyone except me.

The universe doesn't make a doggone thing happen. You make things happen for yourself.

A warrior does not beg for his life. ~Izuru Kira