Quotes About Self-reliance

The true way to conquer circumstances is to be a greater circumstance yourself.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

No one with him to tell him he must eat, he must go practice, he must sleep. Freedom. The trouble was, he didn't know what to do.

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way. He must believe, to the core of his soul, that he can only do what he and the other children work out for themselves. If he does not believe that, then he will never reach the peak of his abilities.

All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

I never really had anybody who followed me. Never wanted them. That's the thing, I guess, that set me apart from the rest of the Jeesh—I was the only one who didn't wish I were Ender.

Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart....

Damn Dap and damn you too, sir, I know what I'm doing." "Do you?" "Better than anyone else." "Oh, that is obvious, since nobody else has the faintest idea what you're doing.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself.

Exige beaucoup de toi-même et attend peu des autres. Beaucoup d'ennuis te seront épargnés.

I'm not really concerned about what other people believe. I dont consider them qualified to have an opinion.

I aint drinkin after no mule, said the hermit. Have you not got no old bucket nor nothin?

I want to just DO SOMETHING instead of ask someone else to start a process to investigate the possibility of someday possibly maybe doing something.

Making stuff: The folks at Instructables have put up some killer HOWTOs for building the technology in this book. It's easy and incredibly fun. There's nothing so rewarding in this world as making stuff, especially stuff that makes you more free.

I'm not magic. You lead yourselves.

It's hard to pay your own way when you're used to someone else picking up the tab.