Quotes About Self-reliance

Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.

There is no such thing as a really rich victim.

Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you've been given.

If you don't invest in you, you'll soon find that no one else will, either.

When you stop relying on others or blaming others or waiting on others to go kill something and bring it back for you to eat, you realize you have to go hunt and kill for yourself. You don't complain about what you lack or let setbacks get in the way of finding a way to make your dreams happen. You just go do it.

first things that a hurting person needs to do is break the habit of using other people as a narcotic to numb the dull aching of an inner void.

You can't let other people determine how far you are willing to go to reach Destiny because it's simply not their call. They don't get it, so don't worry about them!

We hope that our incessant need to make things better for them didn't make them less capable human beings, less able to withstand the trials that will come their way because they didn't experience any disruption growing up.

Be happy for standing by yourself all along, it's worth being celebrated.

Do the job yourself, don't grumble, take your life personal, others can only assist. You're the main fighter in your war.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

Believe in yourself and the world will follow suit.

Your mother didn't raise you to be a child forever.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

Work is for people who don't know how to fish.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.

Ultimately...we're all alone in this world

No man wanted to be told what he could and could not do. And in that lay a well of strength from which one might not otherwise draw.

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind.

This has nothing to do with what anyone else in all the world would approve or forbid. This is all their own.