Quotes About Self-reliance

I hate having to read the manual.

My name is Constance Marie, and I am anti-princess.

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.

I just never was the marrying kind.

I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.

People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

Her knowledge of her own mind was what he admired about her. To expect her to bend to his wishes would be to expect her to be other than herself.

Franklin types don't need Bernie types, but Bernie types need Franklin types. Yet Bernie shows no appreciation. He's hostile and indignant toward the Franklins of today, even while shamelessly leeching off them. Bernie, like Franklin, may indeed have invented himself. If he ever tells us this, we should accept it as an apology.

In India, I learned a proverb that may seem somewhat heartless: "The tears of strangers are only water." It means we are obligated to help only our own; if others have a problem, we wish them well, but it's their problem.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one of his own.

In both cases, it's a meager living. But there is an important difference. Under slavery, blacks had to work; today's blacks don't have to work to inhabit the progressive plantation. In fact, they must not work, because if they become self-reliant, then the progressives have no future use for them. Consequently, many young blacks have productivity, creativity, even human dignity sapped out of them. This is the core of today's progressive racism.

If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else.

Once you're a made man, you don't need the constant living influence of sources outside yourself.

Shakespeare put it this way, in a famous quote from Julius Caesar: "The fault is not in our stars, dear Brutus, but in ourselves." That's a clear message. We are responsible for ourselves. We are responsible for our own luck. What an empowering thought! If you see responsibility as a bum deal, then you are not seeing it for what it really is—a great opportunity.

If heroes in a story could solve their own problems, they would never get into trouble in the first place.

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That's what gives rise to dictators.

Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. Embrace that label.

small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You're the one who has to watch for the open door.

Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you live yours.

You'd be surprised, Theo. she said, leaning back in her shawl-shaped chair, what small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You're the one who has to watch for the open door.

Georgia hated all of them. Hated them passionately. She preferred to stay lost than ask for help from those idiots. So

I'm a grown woman, and I can fend for myself. Now help me put on my pants.

The lone person on a wild landscape is a baseline of human liberty, a condition in which we are restrained by only physical limits and the bounds of our own consciousness.