Quotes About Self-reliance

Stop waiting for others to validate YOU. Your own approval is all you need.

Heroines did not pick their own battles—the ones they knew they could win. On the contrary, they managed what they had to manage, and they did not lie to themselves about relying on others for help instead of accomplishing the thing alone.

She knew how fortunate she was to have her independence, and to have a disposition that cared so little for the opinions of others. Let them talk, she thought, as long as they also saw her holding her head high, and as long as she possessed the whip-hand of wealth.

When you believe that you are the only path to progress, the choice is easy to make. And when they make that choice, their consciences will be clear

No road is paved with gold unless you make it your own treasure.

The things you want to do are all up to you— Excuses are sabotage.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self, so as to have somewhat left to give, instead of being always prompt to grab?

Franklin smiled benevolently at the questioner, and quickly, blandly, he replied, "My friend, the Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself!"

...and to be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes.

One rifle, one blanket, twenty bottles of hooch. Rifle broke. She said this last scornfully, as though disgusted at how low her maiden-value had been rated.

The old-timer had been very serious in laying down the law that no man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below. Well, here he was; he had had the accident; he was alone; and he had saved himself. Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man who was a man could travel alone.

And so with that girl. You noticed that her eyes were what I might call hard. She has never been sheltered. She has had to take care of herself, and a young girl can't take care of herself and keep her eyes soft and gentle like - like yours, for example.

Though alone, he was not lost. 

Ben yine de kendi hazlar?m?, insanoÄŸlunun ittifakla verdiÄŸi hükümlerden önemsiz görmeyeceÄŸim. EÄŸer bir ÅŸeyi sevmediysem sevmedim demektir, o kadar. Åžu güneÅŸin alt?ndaki hiçbir sebep sadece türdeÅŸlerim çoÄŸunluk olarak onu beÄŸeniyor diye o beÄŸeniyi benim de taklit etmemi gerektirme. HoÅŸland???m ya da hoÅŸlanmad???m ÅŸeylerde moday? takip edecek deÄŸilim.

Ben yine de kendi hazlar?m?, insanoÄŸlunun ittifakla verdiÄŸi hükümlerden önemsiz görmeyeceÄŸim. EÄŸer bir ÅŸeyi sevmediysem sevmedim demektir, o kadar. Åžu güneÅŸin alt?ndaki hiçbir sebep sadece türdeÅŸlerim çoÄŸunluk olarak onu beÄŸeniyor diye o beÄŸeniyi benim de taklit etmemi gerektirmez. HoÅŸland???m ya da hoÅŸlanmad???m ÅŸeylerde moday? takip edecek deÄŸilim.

How can you manage all alone, Mr. Young?" His large, almost girlish eyes rested on her for a moment before he replied, and then it was in the softest and gentlest of voices. "Oh, I get along pretty well with them. 

this in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone

Although there are many things you can rely on, no one is more reliable than yourself.

Control your own destiny, or someone else will.

As often as not, we forge our own chains. And from those, not even Adonai Himself can free us. We must do it ourselves.

Os homens irão deixar-te, a tua beleza irá desaparecer, os teus filhos irão crescer e partir e tudo o que pensaste ser a tua vida irá azedar; a única coisa com que podes contar é contigo mesma e com o teu talento.

I'm not going to get married at all,' I said. 'It's too easy to pick the wrong person. I'm going to live all by myself and I'm going to eat all my favourite things every day and stay up as late as I like, and I shall read all day and write stories and draw pictures with no one bothering me or fussing or needing to be looked after.