Quotes About Self-reliance

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

A nation's strength ultimately consist in what it can do on its own and not in what it can borrow from other.

Hope is a crutch for weaklings. The strong carry on without." -Animal

I believe we can't trust the gods. They don't shape our lives; we have to do that ourselves. It's not about whose gods are right, because there is no right or wrong. We have to be able to depend on ourselves and trust ourselves. If we can gather strength from our beliefs, then that's enough.

A quien nunca se quedó sin palabras, y yo os lo digo, quien sólo sabe ayudarse a sí mismo, con las palabras, a éste no se le puede ayudar. Ni por el camino corto ni por el largo. Hacer sostenible una única frase, aguantar el dig-dong de las palabras. Nadie escriba esta frase que no la firma.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence . . . – Maya Angelou

AS AN ADULT, I've found life to be pretty predictable for the most part. Work hard. Set goals. Don't expect anything to be handed to you. Remember that perfection doesn't exist.

Try to live by your own sense of right and wrong. Not in response to someone else's treatment of you.

Because I own my choices. I decided at some point along the way not to care if another person doesn't approve of my choice. I need to know that I think it's the right choice.

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

There is no fate... no predestination... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.

she decided it was better not to have a man in her life than to have a man who wasn't there anyway.

I had lived with Aunt Cordelia too long to enjoy being called "Julie, baby" or "Honeybun" or "Sugar." They were foolish in the first place and rather revoltingly sticky for someone who was strictly a high protein girl.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

They have courses teaching you foreign languages and ballroom dancing and etiquette and cooking. But there are no classes to learn how to be by yourself in a furnished room with chipped dishes, or how to be alone in general without any words of concern or familiar sounds.

Padre nostro che sei nei cieli, concedimi una buona istruzione, fa' questo miracolo, al resto ci penso da sola con un po' di rimmel».

And this the burthen of his songForever used to be,"I care for nobody, not I,If no one cares for me."

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

It follows that these people [INTJs] cannot be successfully coerced. They will not even be told anything without their permission, but they will accept an offer of facts, opinions, or theories, for free consideration;

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.