Quotes About Self-reliance

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.

Of course, he seems to have quite a mind of his own and that is probably where he is weakest.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth, I shall have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.

Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person how to use the internet and they won't bother you for weeks.

I'm a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Self-reliance is very excellent, but as for independence, there is no such thing.

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else. — Kwame Nkrumah

If you always depend on laws of the majority to tell you what is wrong then you are risking your own happiness and morality.

I'm not putting up with this, she continued. You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are you supposed to get anything done? Actually, I'm not in the market for a solar system right at the moment.

Listen, pal, I come and go as I please, so check your ego.

What the hell does it matter who I am or who I'm with?

himself first and last. He'd had to, in order to survive and then to succeed. One was every bit as important to him as the other. The habit was difficult to

Alle äußeren Feinde und Widerstände ermangelnd, eingesperrt in unterdrückende Enge und Ordnung, hat der Mensch schließlich keine andere Wahl, als sich selbst zu einem Abenteuer zu machen.

People don't divide themselves on important and unimportant... I have my own life, important to me equally as is yours to you, and in my life I the one who decides.

Esta es mi vida. Soy yo quien ha de vivir aquí. Lo que a mí me pase es asunto mío, solamente mío, no tuyo

No, I have not sought counselling nor do I intend to seek it. I am a grown man. I am not receptive to being counselled. I am beyond the reach of counselling.

No somos estúpidos. Si necesitásemos que nos salvaran, ya nos habríamos salvado a nosotros mismos. No, no somos nosotros los estúpidos, sino sus agudos razonamientos, que solo le proporcionan respuestas equivocadas.

All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a social box by someone else.

That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.