Quotes About Self-reliance

Zij kon zich niet overgeven aan een plan dat ze niet zelf had gemaakt, aan een koers die een ander voor haar bepaalt.

Freedom from stress does not necessarily involve giving up anything, but rather being able to let go of anything, when necessary, and know that one will still be all right. It comes from being more independent—not necessarily more solitary, but more reliant on one's own inner resources for stability.

We will become better learners and more independent thinkers.

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Harvard just took that option out of our hands. He is truly on his own now.

Do I look like I need a fucking group hug?

There were precious few people you could trust, so if you wanted to survive, you'd better always look out for Number One.

I will never belong to anyone—I will die before I allow that to happen.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Are you happy by yourself?" "I'm used to it," he said. "That don't mean I like it.

Nora Dunn She rescued herself from the castle, by herself and with no knight in shining armor.

Nobody run off with her," Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

Get in control. Live your life the way you want to live it. Don't have the money to do that? Remind yourself that your condition is your own damn fault and then commit and constantly recommit yourself to having the money to live any way you want to live.

After a while, her speech changed too, and she began to speak just like the other villagers. One thing she never learnt, however, was to stop and give way to the men she met on the road. Instead, she marched straight ahead with firm steps.

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

If I had books, if I could scrape together an education, I'd have a future, whether any man ever asked me to marry him or not.

You have no idea how to drown, so you're gonna swim.

My feelings are my own responsibility. I don't see what trust has to do with it. I can't go around handing them off to other people.

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

I believe and have heard from many people that one of the hardest asks anyone can make is to ask for help. When you do that, your request can make people feel helpless, out of control, less than, or irresponsible. We have the tendency to judge ourselves by looking around and seeing and hearing other people coping with life just fine without asking for help.