Quotes About Self-reliance

If someone gives you permission, they can take it away. I give myself permission.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.

Fürst! Was Sie sind, sind Sie durch Zufall und Geburt, was ich bin, bin ich durch mich. Fürsten hat es und wird es noch Tausende geben, Beethoven gibt es nur einen.

Prince, what you are you are by accident of birth; what I am I am through myself. There have been and still will be thousands of princes; there is only one Beethoven.

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that made you a woman. It was having to make decisions, sometimes terrible ones. Children were told what to do. Adults made up their own minds, even when the options tore them apart.

If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you really have one of your own?

I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself.

I don't believe in self-pity. I think it's for people who have too much time on their hands. Instead of dreaming of a miracle, you learn to make your own.

I had once left Coop because I wanted to see if I could be the best, if I could make my own way in the world. But living for months with the Fishers made me se the value of intrinsically knowing there was someone to help me up if I stumbled. -Ellie, Plain Truth

I don't want their help," he explodes. "I don't want to be someone who needs their help. I want to be just like everyone else, you know, not a special case.

Don't go fighting my battles for me.

Her best friend is me; her second-best friend is herself.

She became whomever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.

and my mother raised me by herself, supporting us by hosting home parties to sell sex toys instead of Tupperware.

Going to doctors and getting a pill for every issue has a subconscious effect to avert personal responsibility, and the motivation for patients to earn back their health is lessened.

Tolerably good workmen in any of those mechanic arts are sure to find employ, and to be well paid for their work, there being no restraints preventing strangers from exercising any art they understand, nor any permission necessary. If they are poor, they begin first as servants or journeymen; and if they are sober, industrious, and frugal, they soon become masters, establish themselves in business, marry, raise families, and become respectable citizens.

I'm heading for a clean-named place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities.

If you don't run your own life, someone else will

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

There is in me, deep down, as there must be in everyone–at least, I hope there is, for I would not wish to be alone in this–a part that does not care for anything other than itself. I could lose everything and everyone and that pilot light would still be burning at my centre, that steady flame that nothing will quench, until the final quenching.

There's nothing more tedious than a grown man blaming his parents, birth or otherwise, for all the things that have gone wrong in his life.