Quotes About Self-reliance

It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else's notions thrust upon you.

I never want to hear you use that excuse again, that because someone else has done—or would do—something means that you should too. It's lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind. Am I clear?

Wear it, Eragon. If you wish to remain above the forces here, do not let anyone's disapproval dictate your actions.

En primer lugar, no dejéis que nadie gobierne vuestra mente ni vuestro cuerpo y emplead especial atención para no poner límites a vuestras ideas porque se puede ser un hombre libre a pesar de sufrir ataduras más fuertes que las de un esclavo. Escuchad a los hombres, pero no os entreguéis a ellos en cuerpo y alma. Sed respetuosos con los que ostentan el poder, pero no los sigáis ciegamente.

If wish to remain above the forces here, do not let anyone's disapproval dictate your actions.

It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else's notions thrust upon you.

survive without pledging our loyalty to one

do not let anyone's disapproval dictate your actions.

Don't let anyone's disapproval dictate your actions.

I'd rather struggle and fail on my own than be coddled as a slave.

You'll have to learn to live with that fact and the fact is that I don't hand out descriptions of my life to anyone who asks!

Then you ought to know you can't offload responsibility on someone else. You have to be able to take care of yourself when shit goes down.

Because," said Sparrow, massaging her side, where she'd been injured, "I can't fight like this." "You shouldn't have to. Besides, we've got the UMC with us." Sparrow snorted. "You grow up on a colony or what?" "Yeah. What's that got to do with it?" "Then you ought to know you can't offload responsibility on someone else. You have to be able to take care of yourself when shit goes down.

If you wish to remain above the forces here, do not let anyone's disapproval dictate your actions.

When an entire group of people come together and try to make some kind of identity out of what they don't have, they usually end up convincing themselves they can do whatever they damn well please.

She's so focused and driven to personally succeed that perhaps she takes on too much herself

You can't go on all the time being whatever's necessary. Youve got to have some conviction, and I'm convinced I don't want to be anyone's underdog.

You can't go on all the time being whatever's necessary. You've got to have some conviction, and I'm convinced I don't want to be anyone's underdog. It's not right for anyone to be that. But once you get used to it, well, it just seems natural and you just carry on. And that's the end of you. You're trapped.

Only God Can Judge Me That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don't see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my life

All that can be cherished from this world, all that makes life worth living is that which is mined from its bowels through your own toil, fashioned from its clay by your own craft, fired in the kiln of your heart. Oh, how precious, how delightful a feast, the life that has been forged by its own master!

When I reached Grand Gulf May 3d I had not been with my baggage since the 27th of April and consequently had had no change of underclothing, no meal except such as I could pick up sometimes at other headquarters, and no tent to cover me. The first thing I did was to get a bath, borrow some fresh underclothing from one of the naval officers and get a good meal on the flag-ship.

Not that he felt any particular love for himself, but his dislike of others induced him to make the best of his own company.

Kendi kafanla düÅŸünmeyi öÄŸrenmelisin.

Be brave. Be bold. Don't wait for change. Seize your own life and make it.