Quotes About Self-reliance

Some of us are grown-up at age twelve; some of us never mature. It's not a question of whether you're old enough to make your own decision; are you old enough to take responsibility for the outcome if it turns out to be a bad decision?

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

Other dads actually sat at the dinner table. Mine left me a fifty and a reminder to do my goddamn katas.

Lilith Saintcrow

I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

It seems this time being a grass widow has been good for you; this temporary emancipation from my domination is allowing you to develop your own identity.

If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer? Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the State. Pure and simple.

Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. Then people who are not Christians will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others. (1 Thessalonians 4:11–12 NLT)

Even with the most dependable of refrigeration systems, it is prudent to carry at least 30 days worth of packaged and canned meals on board.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Property is the fruit of labor--property is desirable--is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

With a stranger's hands, you can tie a string around a cat's neck." In other words: If you care about the results, do it yourself.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

No One Needs You That Much

You don't have to be single to be independent. And you don't have to be married to be loved.

People will promise you the moon, offer you the stars, but in the end, the only heavenly body you can truly count on is your on!

I didn't really need a champion, though--a man who'd slay dragons on my behalf. If I ran into any dragon that needed slaying, I'd take care of it. Although, as a vet tech, I might instead choose to find the appropriate anti-anxiety med to calm the creature without permanently harming it.

Heather learned from her immigrant parents not to complain, not to look back, not to blame others, not to be weighed down by regret, but instead to put her head down, work relentlessly, and soldier ahead.

I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

He didn't like to be seen needing it - as if hunger were a sign of weakness.

Even if he doesn't go to college, he could at least learn to make something. Nobody in this country knows how to sink a nail anymore. They're all dependent on the tradesmen their kids are taught not to become.

Most people don't need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves!