Quotes About Self-reliance

I'm not running around looking for love and validation.

There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.

My 'aloneness' is extremely valuable to me.

Some experiences can give you a chip on your shoulder, but they also teach you the value of independence and looking out for yourself.

I absolutely value autonomy. I value freedom and having the ability to implement change right away.

At the core of our American value system is individual freedom.

America has no one to catch you when you fall. That makes you want to achieve. It is healthy for the soul. But all that is valued is success.

Doormats are rarely valued. Men actually like women who are not that obsessed by the man in their life.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values - and follow my own moral compass - then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

There's an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another's degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

Sometimes there are no victims to save, and nothing is broken that should be fixed.

She comes from fighters—her mom can drive a stick shift, smoke a cigarette, drink a soda, put on mascara, and deliver a smack to every member of the family without taking her eyes off the highway.

When you're a kid and a teen, you're not in control of your circumstances. But the beautiful thing about growing up is that you get to create your own reality and your own family. That family might be a group of tight-knit friends, that family might be a spouse and children of your own. But ultimately, your childhood realities do not have to perpetuate themselves into adulthood, not if you don't let them. It for sure takes work.

Seekers are also often calm and quiet and have a natural inclination to being alone, and to working on their own. They

Job hunting is a do-it-yourself activity. There is just no way around it.

You are now required to know what you want and where to get it. You are in charge of manufacturing your own luck.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

When it comes to this kind of thing we can all hold out helping hands to each other, doctors can supply some very helpful medications, but in the end, each of us has to have the will to swim to shore on our own. No one can carry another person. Not for long, at any rate.

No one can turn a man into a hero, just as no one can turn him into a coward. A man has to do either one all by himself.

Stark was accustomed to being alone when things went wrong. For that matter, he was accustomed to being alone when things went right.

She knew enough about him to realize that no one would ever understand him unless he wished it, and that was highly unlikely. He was a man who operated alone, working by his own rules even when he was doing a job for his employers. Emily thought of him in the same way she thought of hurricanes, charging lions and marauding sharks. The only sensible thing to do when any of them was in the vicinity was to get out of the way.

resist. Six months from now she would have enough saved

What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?