Quotes About Self-reliance

I have long since stopped caring what others think, he said. --- Of me or of anything else.

You've nobody to blame but yourself, you know.

It is more frightening but it is not less productive to go your own way, to form your own theatre company, to write and stage your own plays, to make your own films. You have an enormously greater chance of eventually presenting yourself to, and eventually appealing to, an audience by striking out on your own, by making your own plays and films, than by submitting to the industrial model of the school and studio.

This champion of self-reliance, the man who made the unemployed work for the dole, has no doubt that families like his deserve a great deal of help from the government.

Autonomy and independence involve taking care of yourself—not doing things that diminish you.

You'd have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to know what you're getting yourself into, so if there's blame, blame yourself.

No one had a houseful of servants or a trained proboscis monkey, yet we'd turned out OK, hadn't we?

It made me realise that nothing comes easy; nothing is given to you. In Africa I realised you have to make things happen for yourself.

He who follows another will never overtake him.

No me creo a los que fingen interesarse por ellos. Aquí cada uno va a la suya. Lo más decente es decir la verdad.

Soy el ser más egoísta del mundo porque quise ser independiente. Eso me alejó de todos, me convirtió en una isla.

he knew no secrets to a long life, he knew plenty about a happy life. Through tragedy and loss, poverty and setbacks, missteps and blown chances, he maintained a steadiness, an evenness, and a self-reliance that today might be called resilience. He had a gift for seizing joy, grabbing opportunities, and holding on to things that

That's the way people were. Nobody believed in the things you believed but yourself, nobody believed that even you were really sincere about it, people believed whatever was good business for them at the time. Nobody believed in anything but good business.

The only one who can tell you You can't is you. And you don't have to listen.-Nike

The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act.

She wasn't clay in the hands of others; she was rock, and with her own determined hands, she could sculpt the person that she wanted to be.

Even when we grow old and find ourselves alone again, we don't give a shit.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

Laimingas tas, kur? aploja kvailiai,nes jo siela niekada jiems nepriklausys

I'm done with having a m-man tell me what to d-do." He could carry her out, force her to wait, but she was determined to test herself, see what she was capable of, and he had to give her that room.

You are finally the only person in control of your life. That does not mean it will be easy, but whatever mistakes you make, the injuries you suffer, and your victories are yours to own.

No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Course, talkin' don't amount tuh uh hill uh beans when yuh can't do nothin' else. And listenin' tuh dat kind uh talk is jus' lak openin' yo' mouth and lettin' de moon shine down yo' throat. It's uh known fact, Pheopby, you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

We Afficans try raise our chillun right. When dey say we ign'nant we go together and build de school house. Den de county send us a teacher. We Afficky men doan wait lak de other colored people till de white folks gittee ready to build us a school. We build one for ourself den astee de county to send us de teacher.