Quotes About Self-reliance

My favourite virtue is not having any.

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

As long as you can bootstrap, not at the sacrifice of competitive advantage, bootstrapping is a really powerful thing because it allows you to be totally devoted to your vision.

At some point, being a fulfilled adult means taking responsibility for the course of your own life and accepting the fact that now you're in charge of your choices.

There's nothing comes without calling in this world, and after you've called you've generally got to go and fetch it yourself.

I daresay with age comes the inclination not to care much what others think.

we are not a reflection of others' behavior, only our own.

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

Believe me, the world won't give you any gifts. If you want to have a life, steal it.

no one had ever let them think that initiative was acceptable behavior.

I don't give a damn what people think.

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

The three weapons to use against axe cuts are: (a) sense enough not to get cut, (b) a good working knowledge of how to apply a tourniquet, if the worst occurs, and (c) a philosophical attitude.

We don't have plays and music and contact with sophisticated minds, and a round of social engagements. All we have are sun and wind and rain, and space in which to move and breathe. All we have are the forests, and the calm expanses of the lakes, and time to call our own. All we have are the hunting and fishing and the swimming, and each other.