Quotes About Self-reliance

In life we meet some really nice people, you might even make a couple good friends. But at the end of the day it's every man for themselves.

Do not let other people take you to a dead-end when you can find your own path to greatness.

I cannot stress enough how important is it to be independent and strong. So many things are out of your control, and always will be.

Don't always be a follower. Life is a highway. And sometimes you should take the lead. Try hopping into the driver's seat for a change!

Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

Life is not a movie, so dont wait around for someone else to write you a happy ending.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

You have the power to make your life happy or miserable, no one else. So do not give anyone the chance to try and make you unhappy.

Life is full of decisions. Never let anyone make those decisions for you. It won't be YOUR life.

Believe what you believe and it will be, believe what others believe and they will consume you.

I like to gamble. I'd rather win big and lose as well then cling on abjectly and live at the mercy of others

Live your dream no matter what it is. No one is going to experience it but you. Never let your life be in someone else's hands.

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway...let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.

Life doesn't have a remote, get up and change it yourself.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Sometimes life is going to hand us all challenges...My new motto is grow some balls and a hairy chest and fight through it! If you want an amazing life... Only you can make that happen for yourself! And having to fight for the things or people you want/love/need is necessary for getting and keeping them!

The easiest way to make ends meet is to get off your own.

No one can live without the decisions of their own it seems. So they look to someone else to tell them what to be, tell them what to wear, tell them what to say.

She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

Voyage upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And, whatever your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.