Quotes About Self-reliance

Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge.

Sometimes the fact that you were forced to be strong was enough to actually turn you into what you had to be.

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

It was always better to follow a bumpy course of one's own than a smooth but intractable trail set by another. The former was harder, yet far more vital. The latter was like a living death...except you didn't know you were dying because you were in a coma.

It was always better to follow a bumpy course of one's own than a smooth but intractable trail set by another.

If you looked for validation from other people, by definition they could take that away if they chose. The safest path, as always, was to be your own rock, your own harbor, your own shelter. Am I okay? should only ever be answered by the person asking that question.

Right or wrong, she made the choices in her life. No one else did.

If you looked for validation from other people, by definition they could take that away if they chose. The safest path, as always, was to be your own rock, your own harbor, your own shelter.

Real women didn't wait for their dragon slayers to come save them.

I'd rather be alone." She pivoted around again. "I'm getting tired of crying in front of an audience.

She didn't have to go to these things. And she could wear her damn diamonds in her bathrobe and be perfectly happy.

I always thought I was thought and independent, that I could do everything alone. Turns out I'm not as tough as I'd like to think I am.

I was content before you came into it and I'll be content after you're gone.

I don't like taking orders.

I've purposely set up my life to be alone so I won't get hurt.

I don't like being told what to do.

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.

a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn't got any money: he doesn't need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.

You spend a whole life of non-interference with the wishes of others, including politicians and the rich, and nobody bothers you and you cut along and make it your own way.

By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's disapproval and I felt glad and slept well.

I decided someday to become a Thoreau of the Mountains. To live like Jesus and Thoreau, except for women.

The dialogue is solo now. I don't talk. No matter who's in bed with me I never do. My thoughts slip off into nightmares sometimes but I don't share them. I have become now what I only began to be then—completely self-protective.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.