Quotes About Self-reliance

He renunciado desde hace tiempo a todas mis direcciones y paticipaciones industriales para comprarme la cosa más cara -en sentido económico y moral- del mundo: la libertad. Un lujo que no está al alcance hoy, ni siquiera de un simple millonario. Supongo que soy uno de los cinco o seis hombres apróximadamente libres que viven en la tierra.

My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.

If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem

If others fell by the wayside, dear women and strong, loved by men, how had she, single and unloved, kept her sanity?

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.

Our forbears came to these shores not for free stuff, but for freedom. The chance to make their own way, create a different life. They came here because they knew that God made them free to make their own way in life, take the risk, do their best and take responsibility for their own lives. They came here because they wanted to serve Him in the way they believed, not as they were told.

Don't take my word for it! I challenge you to do your own homework.

I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can.

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

If feminism means anything, it means taking responsibility for ourselves: for our own lives and actions. It is not "women as victims" but women refusing to be victims. What we need, as adults or children, is just one person who has confidence in us, so we can have confidence in ourselves.

The best thing about self-defense is knowing there is a self

I'm beginning to realize the pleasure of being a nothing-to-lose, take-no-shit older woman.

Every woman knows there is a big difference between help that is designed to keep you dependent, and help that is designed to make you independent.

When you're dependent, it's very hard not to be worried about the approval of whoever and whatever you're dependent on. For

the love of independence and possibilities

If I know my Rachel, she will do what she wants to do. And perhaps that is the best.

No one else can nurture my personal faith in God. Only I can do that. No one else can get my body to the gym or limit my sugar intake. I have the final decision on those responsibilities.

My condition determines my conditions, my conditions don't determine my condition.

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

A voice in her head whispers "Save Yourself". Whispers "This you can do . . .