Quotes About Self-reliance

They do as they please, they say what they think, and nobody cares, for everyone is busy doing likewise.

Set yourself free. Realize you already have everything you need and don't need anything else.

La vida nos echa toda clase de tierra encima. La solución para salir del pozo está en sacudirnos y dar un paso hacia arriba. Cada uno de nuestros problemas es como un escalón hacia la libertad. Depende sólo de nosotros si lo usamos como tal

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

I always win because I live this life by my terms and conditions

If you're trapped in a room, and nobody is coming to save you, what can you do? You have to bang on the walls and break the windows. You have to climb out and save yourself. It's obvious, Li-ling, that crying doesn't help a person live.

Children need work experiences to develop a sense that success is a function of their own efforts.

When you allow your child to palm off responsibility you encourage the idea that someone else is responsible both for the problem and for fixing it. This attitude is bound to make your child less competent and therefore lower his self-esteem. Even when others have a hand in your child's distress, which will happen, teach your child to take responsibility for his own life.

Rebecca is asserting her independence. Her thinking is simple and egocentric: "I can" or "I can't"; "I will" or "I won't." Independence is about managing one's self. Autonomy is a much broader, tougher, and more complex task than independence. It weaves together advanced thinking, self-reliance, self-regulation, intimacy, and connection. Autonomy is the capacity to be both independent and connected to others.

Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will you tell them?" "I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "It is not for them to say what I will do.

there was something in me that was sick of fear and aw, of gazing at the heavens and wondering what someone would allow me

I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "It is not for them to say what I will do.

Don't let me ever compete with anyone! If I'm a worm and no man, let me enjoy my life as a worm. Let me stop showing off to anyone... Let me live my life free from the opinions, good or bad, of all other people!

The world is the same world. You make it or you don't make it, honey. Nobody picks you up and brushes you off and gives you another run at it.

Emile, you're a goodlooking fellow and steady and you'll get on in the world. . . . But I'll never put myself in a man's power again. . . . I've suffered too much. . . . Not if you came to me with five thousand dollars.

If others in the same Glass better see 'Tis for Themselves they look, but not for me: For my Salvation must its Doom receive Not from what others, but what I believe.

You might have heard the old saying "Give someone a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach someone to fish, and you feed him for the rest of his life." The same holds true for life itself. If you give someone an answer, a rule, a principle, you help him solve one problem. But if you teach him to walk with God, well then, you've helped him solve the rest of his life. You've helped him tap into an inexhaustible

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.

How much better things would be if we all tried to mold and shape our own thoughts and actions rather than those of others.

pentru cei din familia Pendyce era lege s? nu întrebe niciodat? nimic È™i s? nu cread? ce li se spune, ci s? descopere singuri ceea ce c?utau, ostenindu-se în mod inutil pentru ca apoi s? se plîng?.

A woman has within herself the ability to spontaneously rise up after she has hit bottom. A man does not have to fix her. She is not broken but just needs his love, patience, and understanding.

Practise doing things for yourself and not depending on him to make you happy.