Quotes About Self-reliance

Want to really get somewhere in life? Just don't follow the crowd.

When a person attempts to control someone else's life, it only reflects the lack of control they have on their own.

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

Don't let others regiment your life and enslave you emotionally. Be the soldier and liberate your emotions, for only you hold the power to make this life beautiful and full of adventure and no one else.

Sometimes, it's better to be alone to know how your world goes around without the help of anybody else.

The best day in your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. It is an amazing journey, and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Your life will get better when you realize it's better to be alone than to chase people who really don't care about you.

The best way to live your life is to not not care what other people think about you.

Keep smiling always. Life is never going to be as you planned. You need to make it happen yourself.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

If you plan on working for someone else for the rest of your life, then plan on working for the rest of your life.

Don't let yourself be controlled by three things: people, money, or past experiences.

The hardships in life make me think of a well without water. It is nothing to pray for a heavy rain, instead you must fill it by yourself.

Life is not about competition it's about making your dreams come true and becoming independent.

One must be willing to minimize their dependence on others, and just rely upon God, faith, and their own heart in order to keep climbing higher in life.

Judge me and I'll prove you wrong. Crush me and I will stand up on my own. The more that I get hurt the more I will know I'm stronger each time, each time I fall.

You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.

What you allow is what will continue. Its always better to spend more time alone than allow negative people and their opinions to derail you from your destiny.

I could feel his power reaching for my secrets. In the old days I would have rushed forth with a brimming cup of answers, to give him all he wanted. But I was not the same as I had been. I owed him nothing. He would have of me only what I wanted to give.

They had no years of lean harvest, when they must scrape the bottom of their stores, and no good years either, that they might learn to save.

I will tell them nothing. It is not for them to say what I will do. - Achilles

i have no need to forgive you. you cannot offend me

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.