Quotes About Self-reliance

Depend only upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

Mr. Grote doesn't believe in government telling him what to do. Tell the truth, he doesn't believe in government at all. He has never been to school a day in his life and doesn't see the point. But he'll send me to school if that's what it takes to keep the authorities out of his hair.

It was time to let go. She was no longer an angry child. She didn't want to carry that burning coal around anymore; she was ready to be rid of it. Yes, her mother had been selfish and irresponsible; yes, she sent her out onto the streets to steal and turned her back when she was caught. She also taught her the skills that would save her. The guard, heartless bastard, was right: Hazel was only hurting herself.

I now understand that no learning that makes a difference to my soul's evolutionary journey will come from the outside. Everything I need is inside….

Nothing hurts me if I don't want it to," she told him.

Know, if not admit to it, that at the end of some days a single mother's most important tool is her corkscrew. THE WORDS When my marriage fell apart, the situation entailed a whole new lexicon, in some cases a new spin on old words.

Tudo bem, não encosto

Don't ever put your happiness in someone else's hands. They'll drop it. They'll drop it every time.

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

My dear Mother, I didn't knock myself down. Why Should I pick myself up?

Whatever solace TJ Farrelly sought, he would have to find it on his own. She had racked her brain until she had realized the truth: she had none to give.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible cooks. They cannot dress themselves. They are children who need guidance and protecting.

Well, I don't see any other ones around...

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

Helen Graham

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

While still a schoolmaster he bought two Siamese cats – a breed renowned for its independence – and tried to 'train them to place no reliance or affection upon anybody but themselves'. It was what he had been trying to do himself for years. 'In vain,' he concluded, with disgust. 'Far from wandering free and independent . . . they sleep all day in the sitting room, in the intervals of mewing at me for more food.

Dolly is both Cinderella and her fairy godmother, and she has no need for a Prince Charming.

If you wish to be truly free, you must love no one. But of course if you take that path you may also find that in the end you're unloved.