Quotes About Self-reliance

You'll light your own bloody self on fire if you have to. And then you can pat yourself on the back and tell yourself you knew it all along. Congratulations.

Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless: he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will

If you let other people decide what you think about something like that, if you just follow along because it's trendy, then who are you? When the flock changes direction tomorrow, what, you just throw away everything you think and start over, because other people said so? Then what are you, underneath? You're nothing. You're no one.

I'm not putting any deadlines on myself," Mart says with dignity, setting a heaped plate in front of Cal. "Not to suit you or anyone else. Now: get your laughing-tackle round that.

The place makes it clear that whoever lives there has only themselves to please.

If you don't have your code, you got nothing to hold you down. You just drift, any way things blow you.

I live inside my own skin. Anything that happens outside it doesn't change who I am. This isn't something I'm proud of; as far as I'm concerned, it's a bare minimum baseline requirement for calling yourself an adult human being, somewhere around the level of knowing how to do your own washing or change a toilet roll. All those idiots on the websites, begging for other people to pull their sagging puppet-strings, turn them real: they make me want to spit.

I live inside my own skin. Anything that happens outside it doesn't change who I am. This isn't something I'm proud of; as far as I'm concerned, it's a bare minimum baseline requirement for calling yourself an adult human being,

That's the difference between us and white folks, she told herself. They don't stop to say "I can't" or "Should I," they just do.

All liberation is loneliness

He wished his mom had stayed in Taiwan. Raised him here, native. He wished his mom had died early, leaving him to do things for himself. Neil wished for 10 percent increases in kindness, tolerance, social skills, confidence and attractiveness and then felt cheated in life by 10 percent.

You're competent enough on the trail." Don't slay me with admiration.

The strength to go on must come from within, not without, or it crushes instead of building up the heart.

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

I never faint, Fainting is a result of affectation or too-tight stays; I will succumb to neither.

Being alone is best. I mean, it's true, isn't it? In the end you'll be absolutely alone; therefore, being alone is natural. If you accept that, nothing bad can happen. That's why I shut myself away in my six-mat one-room apartment.

I've never had any desire to be loved. I prefer being feared. It gets the same results but without any hugging.

You have to believe you deserve what you want, that it's yours. That's the most important part of it all. If you don't believe you deserve it, if you wait for someone to hand what you want to you, then you'll be waiting your whole life for things to happen, and they won't.

All this hardheaded independence isn't helping me or anyone else.

Sooner or later they will leave our country, just as many people throughout history left many countries. The railways, ships, hospitals, factories and schools will be ours and we'll speak their language without either a sense of guilt or a sense of gratitude. Once again we shall be as we were — ordinary people — and if we are lies we shall be lies of our own making.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

It is easier to crouch on your knees and be fed by government than it is to stand on your feet and find your own sustenance.

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairytale.