Quotes About Self-reliance

Today.... I won't be a part of letting you destroy me.

Live life on your own terms and never apologize for it.

Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... "Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.

Sometimes you have to be the person to tell yourself, that you got through yesterday and you will get through today too.

Do what you have to do, for you.

I have nothing to prove to anyone, because the only one I have to prove anything to is myself.

Sometimes people will let you down. And sometimes you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

Today... You're on your own you know what to decide and where to go...

How scary it might prove to conclude that I am essentially alone in this summons to personal consciousness, that I cannot continue to blame others for what has happened to me, that I am really out there on that tightrope over the abyss, making choices every day, and that I am truly, irrevocably responsible for my life. That I would have to grow up, stand naked before this immense brutal universe, and step in to the largeness of this journey, my journey.

Where do you refuse to grow up, wait for certainty of wisdom before choosing, hope for solutions to emerge fully formed, expect rescue, or wait for a guru to make sense of it all for you?

Where am I asking others to take responsibility for my life? Let's face it - we would all love to be taken care of. We all are recovering children who project the dynamics of intrapsychic parent onto an institution, an ideology ...Growing up is ever more difficult because it requires letting go of old expectations of rescue and redemption. We are it; this is it; this is as good as it gets, and we better deal with it.

I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake, and perhaps as long as eternity too.

Damn it, I can understand a fellow being hard up but what I can't understand is a fellow sponging. Couldn't he have some spark of manhood about him?

and began making coffee without asking permission.

Be your own man, even if you don't add up to much.

Success doesn't come from summoning help from the Force, but from taking control of it and generating the power from within yourself.

essence of liberty as independence, which required the ownership of productive property.

Don't wait for change. You change.

What I need I carry in my head. Everything in that machine came from me. My fat burned into knowledge. My calories pedaled into data analysis -- The Calorie Man

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

Hey. Not sure what's going on-gonna go find out. Be careful and don't do anything stupid. Don't come after me-your better on your own. See you. F I sat on the edge of the bed, holding the note. Okay, so Fang had looked up vague in the dictionary and this was what it had said to write.

Don't depend on others to give you strength....Find it within yourself

Anne Frank wrote, 'How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Exercise the right to think for yourself