Quotes About Self-reliance

As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

As long as I know that my motives are good, however, I'm seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.

In spite of this universal plunge toward matrimony, I still haven't lost my senses. If worse comes to worse, I still know how to run.

We're all on each other's food chain. All of us. It's an individual sport. Welcome to the meaning of individual. We're each deeply alone here. It's what we all have in common, this aloneness.

Loneliness came over him, like an avalanche of snow. He was alone. Where he had always wanted to be. You can only trust yourself. There's a rat buried deep in everybody and they'll rat on you if they get pushed far enough.

If a person is too poor to keep a servant, though ever so elegant, he must sweep his own rooms:

O, said he, these children do not all come from the near houses, the woodland houses, but from the country-side generally. They often make up parties, and come to play in the woods for weeks together in summer-time, living in tents, as you see. We rather encourage them to it; they learn to do things for themselves, and get to notice the wild creatures; and, you see, the less they stew inside houses the better for them.

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true,   85 And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!

I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.

Muster your wits; stand in your own defence...

That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks. But that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me. Because I will not do them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right to trust none. And the fine is, for the which I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor.

Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar.

Aku seorang pekerja sejati, Aku makan dari hasil kerjaku, Membeli pakaian dengan uang sendiri, Aku tidak membenci orang lain, Tidak iri pada kebahagiaan orang lain, dan senang menyaksikan kesejahteraan orang lain.

He that hath a will to die by himself fears it not from another.

Good; and what of him? ALEXANDER They say he is a very man per se, And stands alone. CRESSIDA So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs.

Que ella que con su muerte le dice a nuestro César: Me conquisté yo misma.

Not so, neither: but if I had wit enough to get out of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn.

I felt loss at every hand. The loss of self-esteem is a celebrated symptom, and my own sense of self had all but disappeared, along with any self-reliance. This loss can quickly degenerate into dependence, and from dependence into infantile dread. One dreads the loss of all things, all people close and dear. There is an acute fear of abandonment.

The lesson . . . ," Gilbert says, "is that our longings and our worries are both to some degree overblown because we have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity we are constantly chasing." As Gilbert's research suggests, we may think that happiness is something to be pursued outside us, but it is actually something that we make inside.

We can make a strong unconditional commitment to ourselves to take care of our deepest needs, no matter what other people do or don't do.

I been packin' iron for so long that if I don't have one on me somewheres, I walk slant-wise.

can go for weeks without hearin' the sound of a human voice. And I love it, Melody. I love it. I don't need people the way you do. Hell, I don't even like most people.