Quotes About Self-reliance

But God ain't going to do a thing until you get up and do something yourself. Everything starts with you.

There ain't no man going to do something for you that you can't do for yourself. Get out there and make it happen for yourself.

You got to go get that stuff for yourself. You got to wake up every day and say, "I'm good enough, I deserve to be happy, I deserve to have all this good stuff coming my way." You can't depend on that to come from nobody else.

I tell you when it's over. You don't tell me when it's over. Now get up again and look out the window.

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

You have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman.

BUT I'M NOT A VICTIM; I GROW FROM IT, AND I LEARN. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF.

WHEN YOU GO TO BED AT NIGHT, YOU LAY THERE AND YOU TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF, 'CAUSE NOBODY'S GONNA TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOU.

I never just assume that someone is going to come along and tell me everything I need to know, and you shouldn't either. You have to do your research, boo.

You are living. As soon as you introduce the question "how to live?" you have made of life a problem. "How" to live has made life meaningless. The moment you ask "how," you turn to someone for answers, becoming dependent.

My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldn't advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk. That's all that I can say. 'If I fall....' - that is your fear. Put the crutches away, and you are not going to fall.

You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.

Don't follow me, I'm lost.

Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.

Be self-reliant and your success is assured

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it

Some parents could do more for their children by not doing so much for them

A lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves. (responsibility)

Find my hand in the darkness and if we cannot find the light, we will always make our own.

She wasn't looking for a knight. She was looking for a sword.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

You feel even more naked and alone, he said silently, when you reveal yourself, a gratuitous act, for the strength and comfort you look for, any of those last illusions of consolations, can finally be only within you.

Grandma Harken was sharpening her garden shears. Her hands slowed on the file and she said finally, "He'll get in trouble and he'll figure it out. Best to do it without us standing over him. It's the only way anybody ever learns to clean up after themselves.