Quotes About Self-reliance

You already alone. If you want more alone, I can knock you into the middle of next week, and leave you there.

Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

Well, don't let your mouth start nothing that your ass can't stand. When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It'll settle you. I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

There was nobody but me to take care of me so I invented myself, toughened myself.

I did not want to feel anything that did not originate with me. Because the big deal, as they described it, was that it made you feel so good. I did not want to feel something that was dependent on it. I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

Well, don't let your mouth start nothing that your ass can't stand. When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It'll settle you." "I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

I only know that I will never again trust my life, my future, to the whims of men, in companies or out. Never again will their judgment have anything to do with what I think I can do.

Contrary to a widespread assumption that has crept back into Anglo-American political jargon, few derive pleasure from handouts:

True happiness comes from within. When we stop looking for social proof and trust in ourselves, a certain magic happens. You are the most important person in your life, and, we are one.

Was it so very obvious that I was not married? Of course it was. For one thing, I had no husband with me, looking after and indulging me. But there was something else about married women that I noticed, their solid smugness at not having to worry about the course of their future. Married women were set like jelly in a mold, whereas spinsters like me were formless and unpredictable.

I could have panicked. Before the journey I might have. But something had shifted in me while I spent all that time on deck watching the horizon: I was responsible for myself. I was Elizabeth Philpot , and I collected fossil fish.

I will never draw my sword for another man again, or be dangled by another mans dream. From now on, I will fight my own battles. -Guts, Berserk

I don't want what another man can give me. If he grants me anything, then it's his to give and not my own." – Guts

This isn't a story about how some guy finally saves me from myself. I'm my own hero here; I do the saving.

Nu te increde in nimeni . Nici in propriile-ti sentimente .

Not saying hello is something I don't understand. The problem with ignoring others while traveling in remote wilderness areas, besides being characterized as brash and unmannerly, is that you never know who you might need to call upon for help.

most of the work toward empowering Black males must come from Black males. And nowhere is our love of God more evident than through acts of service.

The Marines see that I'm a television reporter working solo—shooting, writing and transmitting my reports without a crew—and they tell me they like my self-reliance. I tell them it's a necessity, because no one wants to work with me anymore.

If I can't find something on this plate to eat, that's my fault," she replied.

I'm taking the chance, walking away, breaking the rules nobody here can tell me what to do.

I like being in a weak position, and making it strong.

He kept thinking about Uncle Austin, how he taught him to build a fire in the rain, to sharpen a knife, to regard ten cords of wood as money in the bank, to read the wind and tides with intention, to catch a fish, to build a snare, to live off the land and sea and not just survive, but thrive; to know a thousand things with animal senses—to be smart, strong, sensual, alive, more alive than you'll ever be indoors.

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

In contrast, solid self-esteem depends on nothing outside the self.