Quotes About Self-reliance

Your greatness won't be found in a classroom; an apprenticeship; a teacher; or flattering comments from well-meaning family members, friends, or lovers. It is within you.

I want people to trust in their own magnificence.

No pedir nada de nadie te da un auténtico sentimiento de libertad.

They want to be victorious and effective on their own, rather than gaining through the shortcomings of others.

circumstances don't determine your state of mind, for that power rests with you.

Using yourself as a guide and not needing the approval of an outside force is the most religious experience you can have.

effective parents don't want to be leaned on; they want to make leaning unnecessary.

I love this quote that's been attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." In other words, no one can depress you. No one can make you anxious. No one can hurt your feelings. No one can make you anything other than what you allow inside.

Trust in yourself.

And, dude, the truth is, if you're gonna be like this, I don't need the association.

10:05 p.m. I don't want your SYMPATHY your PITY your BAND-AID on my MISERY I don't want your WELFARE your I CARE your SHE'S-NOT-LOOKING-NOW-LET'S-STARE Just give me a CHANCE a FAIR FIGHTING CHANCE

My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.

It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.

We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and household and neighborhoods.

Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.

as self-knowledge develops, we begin to care more about what we think and less about what others ask of us. We

When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.

She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon.

Unilateralism simply means that one does not allow oneself to be held hostage to the will of others.

By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, "I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.

Gradually, as more and more of our needs are met, we discover a crucial truth: that we are the most influential, effective and powerful person who can help us get what we need. The more we realize this, the more we can seek out, ask for and actually realize our needs.

Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!

Well from now on, Linus think for yourself... Don't take any advice from anyone!

If someone is bent on hurting herself, she'll find a way to do it. She was a grown woman; sooner or later, she was responsible for herself.