Quotes About Self-reliance

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.

Don't allow the approval and attention of others to destroy you.

Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way.

People may create your dreams with you, not for you. It's you and only you who has to think, start and continue.

You are your own best friend. Listen to yourself more often than someone else.

If you can't find a job, use your special gift to create a job.

Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.

Life moves on but i want to live alone.

As long as your name is NOT Jesus, I CAN live without you

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

I don't care what people say. My music's my music.

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

Nature is nobody's ally.

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

Grown men do not need leaders.