Quotes About Self-reliance

took chances every inch of the way. I had to fight for my independence.

Trust yourself if you want other people to trust you.

Old women and cats do as they please.

I don't like needing anyone for anything.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Sure and you've got to keep your own spitis up, for there's no one else will do that for you!

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

Marriage has just never interested me.

What would Bob think? That's the question. I need to get you a bumper sticker that says WHAT WOULD BOB THINK?" "I don't need the bumper sticker because it's already stamped on my brain and I wish it wasn't. It shouldn't matter so much what he thinks. This is my life without him," she said.

Here the work had a beginning and an end, like house painting or carpentry, and if she didn't want to talk to anyone, she didn't have to.

Well, I didn't need them. I didn't need anyone. I was Lola Rose. I just wished I looked more like my idea of Lola Rose.

After a certain span of years, a man who has no family of his own becomes if not dangerous, then impervious.

We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.

Devenir autonome, c'est prendre le risque de s'affirmer en renonçant à l'approbation de ceux qui prétendent nous aimer.

But when it comes to the inner situation, there is only one ingredient: you. At least you must happen the way you want.

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

But no longer could I aks God what to do, since the answer, I was sure, would not suit me. I could do what suited me know, as long as I could pay for it. 'As long as I could pay for it.' That phrase soon became the tail that wagged my dog. If I had died then, it should have been my epigraph.

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

If you really want to do something, no one can stop you. But if you really don't want to do something, no one can help you

Mindlessly working to impress someone else will ensure your success is always dependent on that someone else.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

If you have a story to tell or a service to offer (it doesn't matter what), love yourself enough to choose yourself. Take control of your work, your life, your art. The tools are out there. Now you just need to use the tools inside yourself.

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.