Quotes About Self-reliance

I just didn't want to be fixed.

La verdadera inteligencia empieza cuando uno deja de citar a los demás...

There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

Ich bin voller Zuversicht und Entschlossenheit und verfüge über einen freien Willen – zumindest nehme ich das an …

God, he knew, helped those who helped themselves. But wasn't God also there to catch you if you fell?

My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.

It is not 'strength' to try to take everything upon oneself.

I said it before-the only one who can decide is the person herself. I did all I could. From here on out, it's up to her.

It's a prison. It's twenty-four-hour-a-day life in a jail cell. We never get out, not even for one second. All we can do, all day long, is look for ways to survive. Nobody needs to teach us tricks. We brainstorm our own tricks all day long. When real anorexics compare notes, we've already figured out all the same tricks—and each one of us did it on our own.

It would seem, from this, that the people of Omanorion had mastered the ultra-civilized art of minding their own business.

But instead of telling him what to think, I taught him how to think. He then reached a bold decision about what to do, on his own.

Life is as you yourself make it.

Kauf nie ein Buch um der Bewunderung anderer wegen.

Because of the way society sets them up, women never again experience the need to develop independence - until some crisis in later life explodes their complacency, showing them how sadly helpless and undeveloped they've allowed themselves to be.

One strong idea being put forth these days (...) is that women should above all be given choice. (...) But this right to choose whether or not we provide for ourselves has contributed mightily to the female achievement gap. Because they have the social option to stay home, women can - and often do - back off from assuming responsibility for themselves. (...) There is something wrong with this. (...) We want so desperately to believe that we do not have to be responsible for our own welfare.

She took her hatchet. She took flint and tinder. And like her mother she dug up her yams.

Hard weeks, the kind where you realize you've engineered it so that nobody has anything on you, and that means nobody has anything for you: help, a kind word.

We go solo, my kinfolk and I, taking each day as an IKEA bookcase we build alone, sans instructions. The leftover pieces? We gobble them down, and sometimes it's the only thing we eat all day.

a rusty machete and a bag of almonds makes you a person of substance?

Three cheers for your rich interior life, may it serve you well come rent day.

there was always hunger in Ireland. She was a country that liked to be hurt. The Irish heaped coals of fire upon their own heads. They were unable to extinguish the fire. They were dependent,as always, on others. They had no notions of self-reliance. They burned and then poured empty buckets down upon themselves. It had always been so.

secure with his 9-mm Beretta. Anyone

Spending the last several years alone had allowed her to grow in strength. Independence and self-reliance were great things. The best part about them was that the only person who could let you down was yourself.

They are able who think they are able.