Quotes About Self-reliance

They both knew better. It was something to be ashamed of. Americans weren't supposed to take handouts from the government. They were supposed to work hard and succeed on their own.

I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger. I

We each survive our own way.

Leni wondered if one person could ever really save another, or if it was the kind of thing you had to do for yourself.

most of all, she'd learned that she had to rely on herself. Certainly her father and her sister couldn't be counted on.

No one could hurt you if you didn't let them. A good offense was the best defense.

They'd come here with nothing and made something out of that nothing and they didn't cotton to being told how to live, not by each other or by a government that hardly seemed to know the Great Plains existed.

She made enough money to keep herself well stocked with film and books.

And they were ashamed to need anything from the government. From anyone, really. Like her, they'd always worked for what they needed, not relied on the government for a handout.

It was a terrible idea to live a life dictated by someone else's prejudices.

lady should find a way to solve her problems without complaint.

The thing is, not every happily ever after needs to end with a Prince Charming," I say after a pause. "I already had my prince, and if there's another one out there, great. But I'm not sitting around waiting to get rescued. It's time that I'm the one doing the saving.

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

I thought about how I must look, wet, red-fingered from cold, cutting a hole in a perfectly good barn for no reason. "I don't want to tell you what to do," Shep began. This, I'd found, was a very common statement in the North Country. You're not considered rude if you don't return phone calls, or if you get drunk while working, or fail to show up as promised, but telling someone how to do something is bad form and requires a disclaimer.

Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.

Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.

Once you carry your own water you will know the value of every drop.

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

Being alone is simple. I like the freedom of knowing that I don't have anyone to rely on and no one's relying on me. There's a clarity to it that you can't get anywhere else.

Once you've been at another's mercy you swear to yourself it will never happen again. You'll get stronger, smarter, and history will never repeat itself because you've grown and changed and you're not the same person anymore.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

I know you don't approve of me or my ways, Ezra, but I got to make my way in this world the best I can. I got to work with what talents I got 'cause ain't nobody gonna look out for me but me. I will play my music, I will sing my songs, I will dance my dances. And sometimes, as I have found in my life, it's easier being a boy. That's the way of it. Till later, Ezra." I

Never let your future depends of nothing but you. Never let your plans controlled by luck or possibilities. If you hope for a good tomorrow, be you the tomorrow.

I am the only one who can decide what will happen to me," Kaitlyn went on very quietly. "No one else. Me. And I've already made my decision. I'm going back to that place and I'm going to try to stop them any way I can. Whether you give me the shard or not is your decision, but I'm going back anyway.