Quotes About Self-reliance

If man can't piss in his own front yard, then he's living too close to town!

I ain't got no spare/I ain't got no jack/I don't give a shit/I'm not going back

What I did, I did on my own. Don't mourn me. Be joyful.

You took nothing from me.

Later on, Daisy let him take a shower, because he had been nice and because she had kind of enjoyed it. Then he was gone. He said he was going to show up in the morning and take her out for breakfast, but she blew him off. Another weirdo in her life, she didn't need. He was probably just bullshitting anyway. Daisy cleaned herself up, mailed herself a kiss in the mirror, and hit the streets.

I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had to discover it for myself.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

I must become my own owner, my own authority. I must be a home to myself, and I must find a way to live what I believe.

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

you can't depend on people who just let things happen

Too-ticky shrugged her shoulders. 'One has to discover everything for oneself,' she replied. 'And get over it all alone.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody else too much, I know.

She was tired and in no mood for anyone's similes but her own.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

I think it's important that folks feel useful and know the value of working. We do no good to any man by giving him everything." "I agree. I saw the damage done

We cannot continue to provide for their needs, then fault them for lacking ambition to improve their situation." They had borrowed a small one-horse

So tell me more about Miss Hannah. Is she your gal?" Tyler asked. "Hardly. She's no one's gal that I can see. She's her own woman through and through." Tyler laughed. "I haven't seen anyone so pretty since leavin' to join up.

How could she ever plan her future when there was always someone who would go out of her way to step in and try to plan it for her?

Alone, but not alone

I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918

It's got nothing to do with god, but the power of my own mind. I have to save me, no one else can do it for me.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Nope," Clay said. "We're free now. I'm only going to eat what I want to eat from now on." As long as it's slow enough for me to catch it, he thought ruefully.

Don't we lose something when everything is done for us?