Quotes About Self-reliance

This is the strange thing about life after university. It feels like you've just fallen off a conveyor belt of nonstop academic landmarks, and are launched in one fell swoop into the rest of your life. It's suddenly up to you, and not your tutors or your parents.

She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.

He simply knew his own mind and found it company enough.

It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

freedom is not given... it's taken.

Saying of the Prophet Food Nobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

None meets harm who knows his capacity.

If you have no troubles – buy a goat.

Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother. Proverb.

Sé un perro, pero no seas un hermano menor.

La independencia prematura es la hija de la vanidad

I advise you to avoid the confused thinking which results from accepting second-hand ideas, and do some thinking for yourself.

Joining an organization like Alcoholics Anonymous was also out of the question for Hank, partly because of his intensely private nature, but mostly because it would have been an acknowlegment that he had a problem.

During the downward spirals, Hank would go to the brink, then pull himself back in the nick of time. He did it so many times that he probably made the fatal mistake of thinking he could always do it

You couldn't live other people's lives?you could only fight for your own and struggle to survive.

Whenever you place the cause of one of your actions outside yourself, it's an excuse and not a reason.

It wasn't his fault. It wasn't my fault. Darla chose her own path, as we all must.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself —Chinese proverb

Had I listened to the words of others, I'd have stayed nothing.

He will come to those who believe they need him least.

I was drowning in spiritual texts and self-help books looking for answers everywhere outside myself.

You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.