Quotes About Self-reliance

Quienes pueden, pueden porque piensan que pueden.

The only advice … that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women...

I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.

Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. 'That's your course, world,' one says, 'mine is this.

For now that Aphra Behn had done it, girls could go to their parents and say, You need not give me an allowance; I can make money by my pen.

I am what I am, and intend to be it,' for which there will be no form in the world unless Jacob makes one for himself.

when I ask you to earn money and have a room of your own, I am asking you to live in the presence of reality, an invigorating life, it would appear, whether one can impart it or not.

I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me

Clarissa said she would buy the flowers herself.

She liked to be alone; she liked to be herself

Fending for oneself alone on a desert island is really no laughing matter. It is no crying one either

que una mujer necesita dinero y una habitación propia para dedicarse a la literatura;

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

Wicca puts the responsibility for running our lives back where it belongs – in our own hands.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.