Quotes About Self-reliance

The worst thing is to be worrying about what someone else is doing, because that has nothing to do with whether you're doing right.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

Form your own autonomous group, answering to no power but your own, and chase down freedom for yourselves, if your representatives will not do if for you- since they cannot do it for you.

Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to do it? She has always somehow known that she is the one who will have to rescue herself. Or maybe what's depressing is that this knowledge seems like it should make life easier, and instead it makes it harder.

In the end, there was always your regular life, and no one could deal with it but you.

Long ago I had become my own confidant.

It's remarkable, isn't it, Mr. Bennet said, that for decades at a time, I've stayed alive without your daily instructions?

Dirò che, nel concetto dei toscani, chi non è un uomo libero è un uomo grullo.

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

American soul is stoic isolate and a killer

He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best. But you're right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

He felt that if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.

Any man's a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today.

You have an independent income, the only thing that never lets you down.

We are the masterless." That is what the American Eagle shrieks. It's a Hen-Eagle.

I'm not supposed to need fixing; I'm the strong one—the lookout.

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, not look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.

Freedom: to walk free and own no superior

Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you...

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.