Quotes About Self-reliance

Joan Miró gave me some money one day and told me to get him some cigarettes. I gave it back and said if he wanted cigarettes, he could bloody well get them himself.

There is nobody that can make you happy, you must take care of this matter yourself.

I am not a victim. I am alive, wide awake and free from the numbness of apathy.

Please remember that your life is in your hands; your power and your future are waiting for you to direct them. Only you can stop being victimized and start thriving in your life.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance, and truly begin to live our dreams.

People say, "It's not over 'til the fat lady sings," but many people quit while she's just clearing her throat! Don't quit! Bet on you! When life introduces interruptions, when challenges block your path, bet on you!

But — but — it's twelve miles,' they spluttered in chorus. 'You can't walk. It's impossible! It's too far!' Strolling along the empty road in the sunshine, between the paddy fields spreading flat to humpy hills, I didn't care even if they were right.

A free spirit myself, I secretly admired a freer one. To deny his right to chose his own path, was to deny myself that right, too.

He wasn't there to save her. She must know how to save herself.

When you do something out of conviction, my dear, it should be because you believe it's the right thing to do. If you look for approval from everyone, you'll never be able to act.

I wished there was someone, somewhere I could ask: What should I do? But no such person existed in my world. I was the only expert on living my own life, the only person I could turn to for answers.

We all have been waiting for help a long time. But it never has been easy. The people must do it. You must do it.

Sapped of strength, I discover a self that doesn't rely on strength.

In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.

was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you—he

it was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you—

Quentin was perfectly capable of taking care of himself, except when he wasn't.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

In high school, I always had boyfriends - it wasn't healthy! I was so used to having someone around that when I was finally on my own, it felt scary.