Quotes About Self-reliance

I'm creating my own future.

There's a lot around us that we can't control, but my body, my mind, and my soul are pretty much the only things that I can.

For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.

I don't go by brand names for directors.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

I certainly didn't have a nanny.

The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'

I'm not going to take anyone else's word for it, or NASA, or especially Elon Musk with SpaceX. I'm going to build my own rocket right here and I'm going to see it with my own eyes what shape this world we live on.

I think that most people are natural libertarians.

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

If we must be extinguished, let it be on our own terms.

I'll teach you how to roll a cigarette while we're waiting. A man's got to learn that or he won't never have no way of knowing how good a store-bought is.

You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.

Whether the underlying cause of your dependency is a chemical imbalance, unresolved events from the past, beliefs you hold that are inconsistent with what is true, an inability to cope with current conditions, or a combination of these four causes, know this: not only are all the causes of dependency within you, but all the solutions are within you as well.

Whatever you now do, whatever you now believe, whatever your current circumstances may be, you are perfectly equipped and fully capable of fulfilling your needs and desires.

The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self- reliant and totally self- sufficient. It is perfect.

Nothing's bigger than me! Frey shouted back. Me is all I've got.

she had no money, and she had to live with a man who fancied himself a public character and a moralist of a very saintly type. The moralist said mice brought germs and so she was obliged to chase the mouse and all its fellow guests. Nevertheless, although she despised animals, she felt involuntarily that the little marauder was much like herself, trying to get by: she belongs to the great race of human beings who regard life as a series of piracies of all powers.

Why are you so weak, ma petite ? This is not acceptable. She waved his concern aside. Is it acceptable for you to play around with other women? She didn't stop to think why it infuriated her, but it did. I've been taking care of myself for five years, Gregori, without your assistance. I don't need you, and I don't want you. And if I do have to have you around, a few rules are going to be followed.

That won't be necessary. They aren't living with us. They can get their own damn homes. If they want to hang around, they can sit out on the roof and play with their guns.