Quotes About Self-reliance

Asking for help when you can do it yourself is perceived as a sign of weakness.

The truth was that, at the age of thirty-six, Lacy was content to live alone, to sleep in the center of the bed, to clean up only after herself, to make and spend her own money, to come and go as she pleased, to pursue her career without worrying about his, to plan her evenings with input from no one else, to cook or not to cook, and to have sole possession of the remote control.

Lacy enjoyed the quiet. She handled most of her cases alone, as did her colleagues. Deeper cuts had decimated the

I wanted to work alone (painting the fence). I wanted to seem outmatched and undermanned by the insanity of the job before me, so that when the Mexicans returned they'd feel sorry for me.

Or should they stay single and keep their independence?

Les autres [leaders de l'époque] suppliaient qu'on nous laisse entrer dans la maison de l'oppresseur, Malcolm [Malcolm X], lui, nous disait de construire notre propre maison

And then he could bring up the sail and let the prevailing winds carry him back to shore, thus making a living entirely on his own, almost without ever having to see or speak to another human ever in his life, which I am convinced is the secret dream of every person in Maine.

WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE.

Nuviliame tik patys save. Tur?tume pasistengti kuo labiau sumažinti vis? t? atsakomyb?, kuri? jau?iam?s es? skolingi kitiems.

Accept no favors, and you'll never owe any

She had set her own course in life and done so successfully. Just hearing that such a thing was possible improved his mood.

No one cared, no one exercised any real discipline over us; we were on our own.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

They made us believe that each one of us is the half of an orange, and that life only makes sense when u find that other half. They did not tell us that we were born as whole, and that no-one in our lives deserve to carry on his back such responsibility of completing what is missing on us: we grow through life by ourselves. If we have a good company it's just more pleasant.

Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

You've got to learn in life, you've got to learn it quick and keep it for the rest of your life: pull your own strings, and have no puppetmaster – and – habits – are – puppetmasters.

Learning how to learn on his own proved one of the most important lessons of his life.

George Sears, called Nessmuk, whose "Woodcraft," published in 1884, was the first American book on forest camping, and is written with so much wisdom, wit, and insight that it makes Henry David Thoreau seem alien, humorless, and French.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

People will urge you to go to school. They'll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80's. You are here to hustle.

The only person who can fix education is the student.

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . .