Quotes About Self-reliance

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

American universities are so expensive. My family couldn't afford to send me, so I took out student loans and had to pay my own way.

The Enlightenment ideal, which all universities claim to endorse, is that everyone should think for themselves.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.

I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started.

UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system.

I don't feel like, unless I have a boyfriend or somebody to march down the aisle with for the fifth time, that I'm 'Oh, poor me.' I'm not going to go running out desperately looking, making myself crazy and thinking that, without that, I'm nothing.

I have now established myself in a most enviable manner. Those who require something of me must seek me out - I remain apart. I work for no one unless he is a high-ranking personality or a friend.

I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do their own magic.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

The guy is a stud with women just following him around wherever he goes. But he is the last one who'll ask anyone to do anything for him. He'd rather just go do it himself.

I was always an independent, even when I had partners.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.

Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves.

…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.