Quotes About Self-reliance

Faith is Individual

You have to take responsibility and become the architect of your own success by learning what it takes to navigate the twists and turns of a long career, because if you don't take responsibility for your own success, nothing will happen.

If a man can't give you more than you can give yourself, then dump him.

You must look out for number one. If you don't, no one else will.

We all have to live by our own lights, love, do what we can.

Now, as a wage earner, she had gained a certain grudging respect, but it had been a long time coming. At fifteen, she understood her life better than people three times her age; she needed to keep the peace until she had enough money to set up on her own, or marry herself out of it all.

Once, a long time ago, I was in a similar state to you. I went to Marge's. Well, she said something that I'll never forget. She said that self-pity was a luxury none of us could afford. Those weren't her exact words, but that was what she meant. You must pick yourself up, brush yourself down . . .' 'And start all over again.' Carla sang the last sentence and they both laughed again.

But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fall.

There's such a fine line between maintaining independence and knowing when you aren't independent anymore.

I leave before being left. I decide.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers ¦ If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters

Go away...I'm alright.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left.

Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Don't let him have the satisfaction of knowing you'll always be there waiting.

But the freedom of being my own boss is a wonderful thing.