Quotes About Self-reliance

I'm not waiting for you or any other man to tell me anything ever again.

She stalked toward the door and as she swung it open, she turned back and said, "You're not even steady on your feet. You wouldn't last two minutes on the back of a horse, and I sure as shootin' ain't riding to town for the doctor. So you can just forget gettin' that cast off today. The doctor wouldn't agree to that fool notion anyway.

Many times I asked my grandmother, "Why don't you teach me the language?" Her answer always was: " 'Cause we want you to get an education, to live a good life. Not have a hard time. Not depend on nobody. Times coming up are going to be real hard. You need a white man's education to live in this world. Speaking Indian would only hold you back, turn you the wrong way.

Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we'll be perennially bound to others for our happiness and effective service.

There are no rules when it comes to survival.

Waiting for someone else to write your history was no way to live. Sometimes it was only a certain way to die.

Because if I could believe in tomorrow or the next day, maybe that would give the magic time to come true. Or better, maybe by then I wouldn't need the magic at all.

You are not letting me go anywhere. Where I go and what I do is still my choice to make.

I am choosing my own destiny now - not a book, nor a man or a kingdom.

The world was so much safer when you only had yourself to lose.

You [men] are not our protectors.... If you were, who would there be to protect us from?

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

The man who stands in dependence on another is no longer a man at all, he has lost his standing, he is nothing but the possession of another man.

Ik had bijna gevraagd of jullie een beetje op Bel willen passen, maar ik weet dat zij heel goed voor zichzelf kan zorgen. - Charlie

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

Disdain for authority is the bedrock of my character.

Don't never depend on somebody else to take care of you, sugar. Trust in the Lord, and then you just take care of yourself, and things will work out fine.

What the world thinks of me is none of my business.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.

Fame may pass over my head; money may escape me; my one friend may fail me; every hope may fold its tent and steal away; Happiness may remain a sealed book; every remnant of human ties may vanish; I may find myself an outcast; good things held out to me may suddenly be withdrawn; the stars may go out, one by one; the sun may go dark; yet still I may hold upright my head, if I have but my steak—and my onions.

You have to live without love, learn not to need it in order to live with it.

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

The trouble was that she could not see herself without money, and it seems never to have occurred to her that she could earn it.