Quotes About Self-reliance

Wake up and smell the break up, fix my heart put on my makeup...another mess I didn't plan. And I'll bet you thought you beat me, wish you could only see, I've got an I

Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn't need a man; be that girl who never backed down.

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

But if it's in fact true that you have no purpose in mind for me, then that sense of fulfillment has arisen solely from within myself.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

Everything in this picture I took with me, except the tires. They were sent on. And the umbrella? That was the photographer's, but eventually I did get one of my own, and it was remarkably useful. I strapped it alongside, under the saddle and over a box on my right. On the left side I carried a sword, but that's another story...

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

He interacts according to the nature of the covenantal choices he is making. Either he responds to the goodness and mercy of God in faith or he responds in unbelief. Either he grows to love and trust the living God, or he turns more fully to various forms of idolatry and self-reliance. The story is not just the nature of the shaping influences of his life, but how he has responded to God in the context of those shaping influences.

The business of being told to earn a dollar, that no one is going to give you anything - that was kind of my mantra throughout my childhood, and now it's in my adult life. I find that people really tend to relate to the immigrant father, whether he be Italian, Greek, Spanish or whatever.

I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you're 1,500 miles from land. There's no one you can call. You're on your own.

Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.

I let my life, and success, speak for itself.

I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.

My body of work speaks for itself. I don't need anybody in the media to tell me I'm a good defensive player.

I like to be so good, that no-one can have anything to say about me; my dancing speaks for itself.

I speak for myself, my record speaks for itself, and my ability speaks for itself.

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

Most of the time, I do my own hair. I have good hair, so I don't need much. I don't need a hairdresser to come unless I want something very specific.

I specifically left the corporate world so I could wear T-shirts, blue jeans, and honestly, I always wanted to be my own boss.

Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.