Quotes About Self-reliance

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

Poor is the man, whose pleasures depend on the permission of another

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

I'm single because I was born that way.

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

Corollary habit: deriving the bulk of my self-wroth from a feeling of hypercompetence, an irrational but fervent belief in my near total self-reliance.

I have never found it difficult to abandon a group , to go against the alpha male or female. I have never much cared for gangs, for social tribes , for fitting in. I have known since I was very young that the in-crowd isin't my crowd;they are not my people.

Never chase a man, her mother had told her. No good will come of it.

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

Lonely is better than used, Brigit. Besides, who the hell is there to trust? Who do you suggest I start with?

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Rather free than rich

life can turn from being cheerful, warm and cozy to negative in a sec, and all it takes is us handing the power of happiness over to another human being.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

We may rely on others and turn to others for help, but ultimately our answers come from within.

Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

Anchors. You had to be your own anchor. By now there was no escaping this knowledge. Still she had been trained to look for them and despite all that had happened, she had not got over the habit.

Common sign rulerships bestow difficult and arduous lives and success gained against great odds, attended with heavy responsibilities. Men born under common signs usually start out early in life on courses of independent action.

Depend not on another, rather lean Upon thyself; trust to thine own exertions: Subjection to another?s will gives pain; True happiness consists in self-reliance.