Quotes About Self-reliance

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

those who have made their own money don't just care about it because {5} it's useful, as other people do, but because it's something they've made themselves.

Of old the saying, "Nothing too much," appeared to be, and really was, well said. For he whose happiness rests with himself, if possible, wholly, and if not, as far as is possible,—who is not hanging in suspense on other men, or changing with the vicissitude of their fortune,—has his life ordered for the best.

She must come through on her own," said Ruwach calmly. "Others can call her, and I can make it accessible for her, but she must make the choice on her own.

Whom then to credit? Whom to treasure? On whom alone can we depend? Who is there who will truly measure his acts and words to suit our end? Who'll sow no calumnies around us? Whose fond attentions will astound us? Who'll never fault our vices, or whom shall we never find a bore? Don't let a ghost be your bear-leader. don't waste your efforts on the air. Just let yourself be your whole care, your loved one, honourable reader! Deserving object: there can be nothing more lovable than he.

Don't play his game. Play yours.

I have permission to live off campus." She didn't say from whom, because it was primarily herself.

He lives alone and makes his bed? Who does that?

You are strong in spite of him. Not because of him.

I'm not a wilting flower, unless that gets me extraspecial treats.

I am not the Library's child! I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.

But Sam doesn't need to be my therapy, or my life preserver, or my rescuer. I have to be all those things for myself if a marriage between us is ever going to work.

He and his mother weren't close and never had been, really. In this, as in so much else in his life, Jess was alone

Woman, I spend my days hammering nails and building strong walls. I'm plenty manly enough.

You expect me to do everything for you?' ' No. Just dress me. Please.

This is what you wanted, I tell myself. You wanted Melvin to come for you. Now you just have to live long enough to be useful to your kids. Stay alive. I can't depend on Sam now. I can't depend on anyone but myself. All my life has been coming to this.

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

I know in my heart that I can live without him and I know in my heart that I don't want to-that's a good place to start, right?

He can act a bit loner-ish, but I think he's some serial killer waiting to happen; he's just his own best company sometimes. And he's comfortable with that. I guess there's nothing wrong with that.

There's an alone that calls out for rescue—but this appeared to be an alone that wanted to be left alone.

He can sometimes act a bit loner-ish, but I think that's not because he's some serial killer waiting to happen; he's just his own best company sometimes. And he's comfortable with that. I guess there's nothing wrong with that.

If Caroline was here, she'd give me her Patience, grasshopper speech. But she's not and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know?... I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way.

I reveled in solitude. If Lily wanted to believe there was a somebody out there just for her, I wanted to believe that I could be somebody in here just for me.