Quotes About Self-reliance

I 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.

by Matt Jensen, who had himself

I was born to be a spinster, and, by God, I'm going to spin.

Go therefore, and do that which is within you to do. Take no heed of gestures that beckon you aside. Ask of no man permission to perform.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

Oh, nonsense,' said Ross. 'Don't owe your happiness to anyone.

I love to learn but I do not want to be taught

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong; and a boy deprived of a father's care often develops, if he escape the perils of youth, an independence and vigour of thought which may restore in after life the heavy loss of early days.

Sinn Fein,' 'Ourselves alone

If the whole word, except the United States, sank under the ocean, that community could get its living. They carved it out of the prairie and the forest. They're going to have a strong national resurgence in the near future.

the threat of adversity is a necessary factor in stimulating self-reliance.

The most damnable thing in the world is a servile copyist!

Nie ufa?em wiarom, doktrynom, ideologiom, instytucjom. Mog?em wi?c oprze? si? tylko na sobie. Ale przecie? by?em Polakiem, urobionym przez polsko??, ?yj?cym w Polsce. No wi?c trzeba mi by?o poszuka? mojego ja g??biej, tam gdzie ono ju? nie by?o polskie, a po prostu cz?owiecze.

Yes, but I wasn't running around asking other people how to do it.

I always took to anything that required solitude...it kept me from having to deal with other humans who, for no explainable reason, I didn't like nor trust.

And then I started to think, that the less I know about what people think of my work, the better off I am.

I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.

In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little.

My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

Over time, a subtle cancer spread: where you have more experts, you create more bystanders. Professionals did all the fighting and fixing we used to handle ourselves; they even took over our fun, playing our sports while we sat back and watched.

Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations, man.

We've lulled ourselves into believing that in an emergency, someone else will always come along to rescue us. We've stopped relying on our own wonderfully adaptable bodies; we've forgotten that we can think, climb, leap, run, throw, swim, and fight with more versatility than any other creature on the planet.