Quotes About Self-reliance

She knew, then, that this solemn form of joy, so pure because it had no content, so reliable because it relied on nobody else, was the state for which she would henceforth strive.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.

don't expect Nicky to provide some kind of happily ever after for you. Because it's not up to him, it's up to you.

For better or worse, she was the lady Soraya. And the lady Soraya would never dream of missing the warm bulk of Casia's body between her and the hearth, or the comforting drone of Ludo's snores. Or the wry laughter of a slave... a slave, for Azura's sake! The lady Soraya needed no one. The lady Soraya cried herself to sleep.

He follows his own way these days, even more than most of us. 'Twas as goof a description of madness as any I've heard.

We cannot live in a world interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.

My group at least was trying to stretch out its rice supply, and sometimes we were able to supplement the rice with bananas or meat from a cow we had killed.

You shouldn't rely on others to help you determine what's good and what's bad. In no time at all, you'll simply be under someone else's control.

Sometimes it's better to let people handle their own problems. Sometimes just believing in someone is the best way to stand up for them.

I've borne my isolation with me through the crowd as the snail bears its house. For some people isolation isn't a circumstance in which they find themselves, it's an innate characteristic.

Another girl might have frozen, but I am cold all the way through.

It was enough to make her want to sit down on the ground and cry. It was too much. But there was no one else, so it couldn't be too much. It had to be exactly enough. It had to be what she could handle, and she had to handle it

I'm no longer a child, and I don't need comfort.

I might be only sticks and snow and hag magic, but at least I did not come from her. I am no one's child. That makes me smile, showing red teeth.

Can you save yourself?

Fight your fight," she tells me. "Let someone else worry about theirs.

One is this: without the means to pay experts, it's necessary to evolve a complex ecosystem of useful amateurs.

Fight your fight,' she tells me. 'Let someone else worry about theirs.

I am a solitary creature, fated to be one and better as one. Forgetting that is what got me into trouble.

It is no life to be always under someone's control, subject to their will and whim.

We can still walk away," Walk away. Wasn't that what she'd tried to do for years?

Cardan had grown up in the palace, a wild thing to be cosseted by courtiers and scowled at by the High King. No one much liked him, and he told himself he cared little for anyone else. And if he sometimes thought about how he might do something to win his father's favour, something to make the Court respect him and love him, he kept that to himself. He certainly asked no one to tell him stories, and yet he found it was nice to be told one. He kept that to himself, too.