Quotes About Self-reliance

Wow, you have a very confused and amusing view of this situation," Peril said. "We're not your prisoners. You couldn't take me prisoner even with an army of IceWings. Not even if all of them had arrogant foreheads like yours. There isn't actually a world in which you need to decide whether to 'release' me. I released myself a long time ago, but thanks anyway.

Wait," Deathbringer said. "Just — remember that you're your own dragon. You don't have to do what you're told. You can at least ask questions.

The back of my hand to guilt.

If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with fools. 43

Don't let other people's opinions guide and direct your life, opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one and most of them stink

To my way of thinking each of us is responsible, in large part, for our own happiness. If we don't live our dreams and push for the things we want and take control of our own futures, then we don't have anyone to blame but ourselves.

If you're too inexperienced to start a startup, what you should do is start one. That's a way more efficient cure for inexperience than a normal job. In fact, getting a normal job may actually make you less able to start a startup, by turning you into a tame animal who thinks that he needs an office to work in and a product manager to tell him what software to write.

A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction; he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions but also of entire world views, he is the inventor of entire forms of life.

I don't tweet or blog or order pizza with arugula on top. You won't find my mug on Facebook or Instagram. I don't have a life coach, an aroma therapist, or a manicurist, and I sure as hell don't do Pilates.

See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two feet.

So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere; sightseeing

There was no one else to blame anymore. No Bores or Old Ladies or Nortons, or Assassins waiting at the bridge. And there was no place to hide-no place across any river for a boatman to take us. Our life would be what we made of it-nothing more, nothing less. Baboons. Baboons. They build their own cages, we could almost hear the Pigman whisper, as he took his children with him.

I don't know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others.

Don't place your dreams in the hands of those whom can destroy them.

Don't let other's say That road is better or That route is easier. The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard

Whoever is capable of not minding what others say, is a man on the path to wisdom

Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

you are the only person responsible for your choice

Some people were born to face life alone, and this is neither good nor bad, it is simply life.

I want and need to like myself again; I have to convince myself that I'm capable of taking my own decision.

Giryas give the 'working class' answer to elitist weightlifting. You do not need expensive weights—an Ivanko barbell can cost as much as a motorcycle—platforms, and expert coaching. Just a 'people's' kettlebell, this book, and a few square feet of space.

Grown people never ask you what they should do until they've already decided for themselves.