Quotes About Self-reliance

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

You make your own life.

Let others do as they wished, but she would live the life she began and would not run from corner to corner in a frenzy. She would wait for her own happiness, not someone else's.

Don't listen to people--listen to yourself.

But you said you no longer care for the world's opinion," I said to him, "nor will I.

There is nothing worse than falling prey To someone else's confusion.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

People have nothing to do and therefore they interfere with the life of others. I dont want to interfere with the life of others.

An ethnic community that rebels for independence must stand on its own feet in economic life. It is a truism that only such an ethnic community can enjoy independence.

The hardest work you have to do is to learn to depend on your inner self because you have been taught to look always to someone else.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep." My old neighbors...so glad to be free from that negativity.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

[S]o you plant your own garden and nourish your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers....

Just because someone tried to make you into a victim didn't mean that's what you had to be.

Mortimer had maxed three credit cards stocking the cave with canned goods and medical supplies and tools and everything a man needed to live through the end of the world. There were more than a thousand books along shelves in the driest part of the cave. There used to be several boxes of pornography until Mortimer realized that he'd spent nearly ten days in a row sitting in the cave masturbating. He burned the dirty magazines to keep from doing some terrible whacking injury to himself.

Yes, well, there's something to be said for damsels who need rescuing." Thomas's gaze strayed back to Marianne. She would never need rescuing. And wasn't there something to be said for that as well?

She says she glories in being abandoned

Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what's right for me except me. I'm not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.