Quotes About Self-reliance

I don't listen to opinions.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

No disrespect, but I don't make decisions based on opinions.

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

You can say a lot of things about me, but I own my own opinions. They're not for sale.

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

People used to say of me that I was too individualistic. I must be far more of an individualist than ever I was. I must get far more out of myself than ever I got, and ask far less of the world than ever I asked. Indeed, my ruin came not from too great individualism of life, but from too little. The one disgraceful, unpardonable, and to all time contemptible action of my life was to allow myself to appeal to society for help and protection.

I did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.

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

I'm not stupid, stupid. Leave this whole thing in my extremely capable and well-manicured hands. I'll call you later with an update. Bye!

If I can't have my own mate and my own children, then I can at least have my own kingdom.

You might want to know that my dad taught me to shoot so that I could hunt with him, which I've been doin' since I was a kid. I can kill a pheasant in flight. I can kill a rabbit running for its burrow. I've even shot a squirrel scrambling up a great big ol' oak. So, I can damn sure hit your knee from a few feet away. Now, you and your boys need to back the fuck away from our truck, or I will happily give you tangible proof that I am indeed an excellent shot.

Comfort is for sissies and unattractive people

The one silver lining of our sad political reality in 2018 is that we're learning to rely less on the powers that be and more on ourselves to make change.

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

I wish people wouldn't tell me I can't do things.

One of the rooted convictions of each member of the human race is that he or she is able without difficulty to open a door which has baffled their fellows.

This is peculiarly an age of young men starting out in business for themselves; of rare, unfettered spirits chafing at the bonds of employment and refusing to spend their lives working forty-eight weeks in the year for a salary.

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.

She had so little control over her own life. Yet she took control, out of thin air for herself, when she could. I

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.

You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you." —ARTEN IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE UNIVERSE, BY GARY RENARD In

This is when I learned the art of leaving. I knew if I didn't get away, I'd be no help to anyone. Freeing yourself is mandatory before you can help to free others.