Quotes About Self-reliance

The fact is, race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident, real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counter productive. I grew up in a family that believed that you might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your reaction to them. There was no room for being a victim or depending on the white man to take care of you.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

There are no rules in life. Whether it is written down, or spoken by shamans, nothing binds a man beyond himself. Nothing, save the chains he accepts for himself. Laws and traditions mean nothing, if you have the strength.

There was no justice in the world—unless he made it for himself. Unless he cut twice as deep as he had been cut and gave back blow for blow. He had the right.

There was no destiny in life, nothing beyond what a man could take and hold for himself.

If he had learned anything in manhood, it was that it didn't matter what other people thought of him—even the ones he respected. In the end, he would patch together a life, with its sorry errors and its triumphs, just as they had.

Um homem forte pode dobrar o céu a seu favor, mas só para si mesmo, sabia Temujin.

Most cannot lead—the idea terrifies them. Yet for those like you and me, there is no greater joy than knowing there is no help coming. The decision is ours alone.

but what good is thousands of years of art if you can't defend yourself?

Better to follow a woman's example than mindlessly heed the dictates of men.

No god save self, that is the way to live ...

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

And now if they should break or you should fall, you might faint for a year or two. If that happens, your local system takes over: that's the pack on your back.

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

No boyfriend?" he asked. "Nope," she said. "I don't mind being alone." But the words didn't ring true. She added, quietly, "People just can't be trusted.

I thought about Vic being rich. She already had the fuck-you attitude; fuck-you money might be too much.

I have gotten to the age where I try and let other people solve their own problems." "What age is that, anyway?

None of us can help you any more than you can help yourself—have you never thought that this

I thought that having someone to love, having someone love me back, made me a stronger person. But it was the opposite. It made me weaker because it led me to believe that I couldn't survive without those things. And I spent so long afraid of being alone that I never did anything for myself. I never did anything with myself, which made it all the easier to believe I wasn't capable.

I don't need anyone's pity. My life has been what it has been. It's not a wonderful story, but it's mine.