Quotes About Self-reliance

Armour belonging to someone else either chops off you or weighs you down or is too tight

and those modes of defence are alone good, certain and lasting, which depend upon yourself and your own worth.

Pero un príncipe sabio evitará siempre valerse de unas y de otras y recurrirá a sus propias armas, prefiriendo perder con ellas a ganar con las ajenas.

porque nunca hay que dejarse caer creyendo que vas a encontrar a alguien que te recoja. Esto o no sucede o, si sucede, pierdes tu seguridad, porque ese tipo de defensa es vil y no depende de ti. Sólo son buenas, seguras y duraderas las defensas que dependen de ti mismo y de tu virtud.

Ofreciéndose David a Saúl para combatir a Goliat, provocador filisteo, Saúl, para darle valor, lo armó con sus armas; pero una vez que se vio cargado con éstas, David las rechazó, diciendo que con ellas no podría sacar partido de sí mismo y que prefería ir al encuentro del enemigo con su honda y su cuchillo. En fin, sucede siempre que las armas ajenas o se caen de los hombros del príncipe, o le pesan, o le oprimen.

the armor of others is too wide, or too strait for us; it falls off us, or it weighs is down.

Ofreciéndose David a Saúl para combatir a Goliat, provocador filisteo, Saúl, para darle valor, lo armó con sus armas; pero una vez que se vio cargado con éstas, David las rechazó, diciendo que con ellas no podría sacar partido de sí mismo y que prefería ir al encuentro del enemigo con su honda y su cuchillo. En fin, sucede siempre que las armas ajenas o se caen de los hombros del príncipe, o le pesan, o le oprimen. Carlos

instead of praying for some new holy man to save you, learn the way to Hell in order to steer clear of it yourself.

One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.

A young man who insists that his mother should lay out three separate sets of clothes every morning for him to take his choice at his leisure is unlikely to be popular in any century.

Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd(Julie) always been the windshield type: gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. Mom throws me out? Gotta get some food and find a place to live. Husband dies? Gotta keep working, or I'll end up going crazy. Got some guy stalking me? Gotta figure out a way to stop it.

I go to the wild mountains where I am responsible for myself. Step by step I am making sure that I don't die.

I never relied on my beauty for anything. It was one of those things that was inevitable; you have a bit of philosophy about it. I didn't go into mourning.

My parents are not nurturers. They're a bit like me: do a good job and move on.

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

I don't really feel part of any particular movement.

I make moves on my terms.

I mow my own lawn.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.

But I don't pay much attention to outside influences. People can say what they want. I always try to focus on my own environment.

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.