Quotes About Self-reliance

And then Robinson Crusoe stripped naked, swam out to his ship, filled his pockets with biscuits, and swam back to shore.... What? I said, hefting my pack and frowning at the child. Nothing, she said, getting to her feet. Just an old preHegira book that Uncle Martin used to read to me. He used to say that proofreaders have always been incompetent assholes-even 1400 years ago.

If someone comes I go out to meet him but not for his sake

Freedom is anxiety's petri dish. If routine blunts anxiety, freedom incubates it. Freedom says, Even if you don't want to make choices, you have to, and you can never be sure you have chosen correctly. Freedom says, Even not to choose is to choose. Freedom says, So long as you are aware of your freedom, you are going to experience the discomfort that freedom brings. Freedom says, You're on your own. Deal with it.

Chi si lamenta della fatica, se sa di lavorare per la conquista della propria libertà?

I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet in time, by labour, application, and contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it.

I spent eighteen days entirely in widening and deepening my cave

I had more care upon my head now than I had in my state of life in the island where I wanted nothing but what I had, and had nothing but what I wanted; whereas I had now a great charge upon me, and my business was how to secure it.  I had not a cave now to hide my money in, or a place where it might lie without lock or key, till it grew mouldy and tarnished before anybody would meddle with it; on the contrary, I knew not where to put it, or whom to trust with it. 

The more readily we make household names and the more numerous they become, the less are they worthy of our admiration... We can make a celebrity, but we can never make a hero. In a now-almost-forgotten sense, all heroes are self-made.

There comes a point in a man's life when he has to take control of things. Otherwise, things will just keep controlling him.

The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself

Are you content? If so, you can afford to ignore the condemnation of the crowd.

I believe in myself so much that nothing is going to stop me.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

The most important thing is to have opportunities and feel confidence in yourself.

Believing in yourself and having confidence gives you outer strength.

It is she who has enough confidence to define success and failure for herself who succeeds.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around.

Don't worry, I got this (staring excitedly at her ice cream)

"Life only delivers to people that create their own postal code."

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say 'How to Build a Boat.'

Secret of happiness: Don't expect anything from anyone!

If you want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

I am thankful to all who said no to me. It is because of them that I'm doing it myself.