Quotes About Self-reliance

At any rate, it is safer to leave people to their own devices on such subjects. Everybody likes to go their own way—to choose their own time and manner of devotion

The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself;

Everybody likes to go their own way- to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Existem pessoas que, quanto mais você faz por elas, menos elas fazem por si mesmas.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone.

I have no thoughts of matrimony at present!

But I tell you, Miss Lizzy — if you take it into your head to go on refusing every offer of marriage in this way, you will never get a husband at all — and I am sure I do not know who is to maintain you when your father is dead. I shall not be able to keep you — and so I warn you.

I am afraid you do not like your pen. Let me mend it for you. I mend pens remarkably well. Thank you -- but I can always mend my own. -- A dialogue between Caroline Bingley and Fitzwilliam Darcy.

There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves.

She is too old to share her space with people she does not know, too set in her ways to share her space even with people she does.

After that day I decided that never again would I depend on other people. However, putting that resolution into practice was easier said than done.

Marshall Shafter...kept pasted in his desk drawer a piece of paper he looked at from time to time to remind himself of something. It said, A fool can put on his own clothes better than wise man can do it for him.

You have to trust your own abilities, and not doubt them because someone else does. If we do carry out our present plans, you'll have to hold your own sense of integrity in the face of skepticism

She knew one of the great family truths, that aunts always help, whilr moms always think it would be good for you if you did it yourself

Just because i know how to change a guys oil doesn't mean i want to spend the rest of my life on my back, staring up his undercarriage.

Your on your on with this one babe. Coward. Calling me names isn't going to get me in there. -Ranger and Stephanie

My big move was to get out of my underpants without snagging my foot and falling on my face.

Will you promise to pick up after yourself?" "No, but I'll hire a cleaning lady.

own decisions. And I'm responsible for my well-being. Is that clear?" "No," both men said in unison.

Are you a feminist?" "You bet your ass," Lula said. "Unless I need something done that's man's work.

La maggior parte delle donne sarebbero contente di essere seguite da me». «Io non sono la maggior parte delle donne». «Come se non lo sapessi».

I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay.

Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.

If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one's own universe, to live on one's own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil.