Quotes About Self-reliance

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L'indépendance que je croyais avoir acquise était le seul sentiment qui m'affectait. Libre et maître de moi-même, je croyais pouvoir tout faire, atteindre à tout : je n'avais qu'à m'élancer pour m'élever et voler dans les airs.

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. I never knew a girl to have such gumption, she'd say. But I'm not too sure it's a good thing.

Dad kept telling me that he loved me, that he never would have let me drown, but you can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim.

If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.

She knew how to get by on next to nothing.

I'm a grown woman now," Mom said almost every morning. "Why can't I do what I want to do?

And if the world went to hell in a handbasket-as it seemed to be doing-you could say good-bye to everyone and retreat to your land, hunkering down and living off it.

Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal.

Don't be someone else's little cheerleader", Mom said. "Be the star of your own show. Even if there's no audience.

Because sometimes men don't take care of the women. And that's why we women need our jobs.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without anything or any person being able to lighten it.

If... if I didn't try to get my life moving on my own account, I should think it just absurd to go on living.' A look of smiling obstinacy had come into Marcelle's face. 'Yes, yes - it's your vice.' 'It's not a vice. It's how I'm made.' 'Why aren't other people made like that, if it isn't a vice?' 'They are, only they don't know it.

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

Unity may be achieved under a strong man, but the time comes when a people must stop looking for a savior and take responsibility for their own future.

If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.

To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.

Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.

Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise.