Quotes About Self-reliance

The only opinion that matters is your own. Everything else is just advice.

Don't base your decisions on the advice of people who don't have to deal with the results.

If you allow someone to be the source of your happiness, they will become the source of your pain.

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

Don't put the key of your happiness in someone elses pocket.

Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

Probably the biggest advantage of success resides in the fact that you don't have to listen to good advice any more.

The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.

Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.

Seek advice but use your own common sense.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

Motivation is what you need to get through those barricades, and when there's no one to motivate you, it's time to motivate yourself and be self motivated.

Don't listen to people who tell you what to do... listen to people who encourage you to do what you know in your heart is right...

Walking with others is good, but one of the best walks you will take is when you have enough courage to believe in yourself to walk alone. It then will make more things possible than you can imagine.

You've got brains in your head and feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Letting others guide your future through their uninvited comments is permitting them to push you off a cliff and hope for the best...you either stand your ground or let others lead you to disaster.

Anyone who allows other people to control and guide their destiny will eventually become bitter and feel used and taken advantage of.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

You don't need anyone's help to light your way through the darkness.