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Quotes About Self-reliance

Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, 'Okay, I'm in the tampon aisle, but I don't see it.'
~ John Gierach
Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.
~ Rajneesh
We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.
~ James Anthony Froude
Solitude is independence.
~ Hermann Hesse
Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone.
~ Jimmy Durante
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
~ William S. Burroughs
I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
~ Lena Horne
One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.
~ Tove Jansson
I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
~ Grace Jones
He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
~ Will Rogers
I had a fear of being alone.
~ Gloria Gaynor
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
~ Rudyard Kipling
I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.
~ Thomas Browne
I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.
~ Karin Slaughter
I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.
~ Claudia Christian
When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
Leave me alone. I'm fine.
~ Barry White
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
~ John Dryden
The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
~ Hank Aaron
Being alone makes us stronger. That's the honest truth. But it's cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
~ Roberto Bolano
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
~ Baruch Spinoza