Quotes About Self-reliance

Take no one's word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience.

Take no one's word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

Take no one's word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there really is no limit to where you can go.

I would not allow myself to be defined by other people, white or black." —James Baldwin

So what if those stupid roosters don't want to crow? If we've learned to live without men, we can learn to live without cocks.

If there is no wind, you must learn to row.   —Polish Proverb

Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people.

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.

I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because of some Asshole's thoughts who wrote the introduction.

Forty-four. What is more important, fame or integrity. What is more valuable, money or happiness. What is more dangerous, success or failure. If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy. Be content with what you have and take joy in the way things are. When you realize you have all you need, the World belongs to you.

There is no Higher Power or any God who is responsible for what I do and for what I have done and for who I am. There is no Higher Power or any God who will cure me. There is no Meeting where any amount of whining, complaining and blaming is going to make me feel any better.

If you care about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner

There is a lot of uncertainty in this industry, and you can create your own opportunities and take control of that, but that also takes a lot of time.

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

I don't want a life without my mom in it, but I'm not someone who curls up in the fetal position and says, 'Mommy, take care of me!' I don't like people catering to me. It feels so awkward and uncomfortable.

I've always been the underdog and underdogs don't really care for attention.

They say to never underestimate anyone, but they don't tell you to overestimate people either, so I'm just going to do me.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

I dominated the underground and then I dominated the overground, and I did that on my own.

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me.

I don't think a lot of people understand the situations I've been involved in and the way I grew up. I took myself away from it and made something out of a bad situation.