Quotes About Self-reliance

You're perfectly capable of learning. You mustn't listen to people who don't know you. Listen to what you know, yourself.

Find satisfaction in yourself first before you ever start seeking it from anyone else.

If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end of your arm.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, one cannot do without in life. All wants are dispensable as long as one can absent oneself.

For the first time in my life, I was alone. And for the first time in my life, I knew what the hell I was doing.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

No that's beside the point. I just decided to take instead of being taken. It's not a question of good or bad, wrong or right. It's just what I want to do. Mitsuko Souma

You want to be treated like an adult? Then you need to grow up.

Not everyone has to be in a relationship to feel good about themselves. Some people are better off on their own.

And you know what? You can't make me responsible for you and the choices you make." I turned around and started walking toward the house.

You're as cold as ice, Dotty. You'll end up alone if you can't thaw.

Really, I think my tippy state was a sign. I was supposed to see how much I was depending on Ben. I was supposed to realize that you can't depend on another person to provide your own balance.

I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger. We knew the risks and took them anyway.

In the silence, Leni wondered if one person could ever really save another, or if it was the kind of thing you had to do for yourself.

It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone of something to change your life.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone or something to change your life.

this integration [of the shadow]…leads to disobedience and disgust, but also to self-reliance, without which individuation is unthinkable.

With the very decision to put his own way above all other ways he has already in large part fulfilled his liberating vocation. He has cancelled the validity of all other ways for himself. He has placed his law above all conventions.

evaluation by others is not a guide for me. The judgments of others, while they are to be listened to, and taken into account for what they are, can never be a guide for me. This has been a hard thing to learn.

Each man must resolve within himself issues for which his society previously took full responsibility.