Quotes About Self-reliance

Make yourselves your island, make yourselves, not anyone else, your refuge; make the Dharma your island, the Dharma your refuge, nothing else your refuge.

His conduct reveals that he has more confidence in what he can do for himself than in what God can do for him. He has, in fact, "snubbed" God. It is this attitude that calls forth God's curse.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

After you fail, which I have, you can either choose to crumble and retreat and become nonfunctional, which I've seen happen, or you can just become a lone wolf, forget about the cool kids and just continue to do your own thing.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.

And you know bloody well that you mostly cant help them anyway; they've got to do it--or not--themselves.

Doom, or save. That I cannot do. For I have no power beyond that of knowledge, no ability to bend others to my will, no way to stop them doing what they will. There is only me.

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One leg was stained with blood down to the ankle, and he walked with a ginger, spraddled gait, but he would on no account let a "wumman" lay hands on him to see what was the matter.

Doom, or save. That I cannot do. For I have no power beyond that of knowledge, no ability to bend others to my will, no way to stop them doing what they will. There is only me. I shook the snow from the folds of my cloak, and turned to follow Maisri down the path, sharing her bitter knowledge that there was only me. And I was not enough.

I said I don't propose to die," William assured him. "And I don't need help.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are—or for not coming back.

There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.

I don't idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone.

I don't even take aspirin.

I have never asked anyone for an assignment; never asked a producer or a director for a role.

My dad would much rather work a couple jobs than be on government assistance.

I think people can't believe I can still walk and talk and get on the stage without assistance.

I don't associate myself with anything. I don't associate myself with where I'm from or where I am.

I've done a lot of astronaut training through the world, Russia, America. And I could always beat the guys on what they were doing because I was always stronger and I've always done everything on my own.

I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.

We don't need any help - the athletes and the coach don't want any help to win.

One of the very first serious books I read when I was growing up was 'Atlas Shrugged.'

You know what that big number was? It was 1957. It's not the year I was born. I'm a little older than that. I wish it was the year I was born. It was the year one of my favorite books was written: 'Atlas Shrugged.' Ayn Rand.