Quotes About Self-reliance

I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; enough if you tear down yours.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

He who, to hold his own, must count on the absence of will in others is a thing made by these others, as the master is a thing made by the servant. If submissiveness ceased, it would be all over with lordship.

Non preoccuparti delle barriere degli altri: è sufficiente che tu abbatta le tue.

In practice this means that God helps those who help themselves . Thus

No man is hurt but by himself," said Diogenes.

Remember, above all, that the key to any crisis situation is you.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Opet sam sam. Možda je i najbolje tako, ne o?ekuješ pomo? i ne bojiš se izdaje. Sam. U?init ?u sve što mogu, ne uzdaju?i se u podršku koje nema, i onda je moje sve što postignem, i zlo i dobro.

Ne voliš da budeš na smetnji, ne voliš da te ko krivo pogleda, ne voliš da ti iko ružnu rije? kaže. Kako onda misliš živjeti?

Opet sam sam. Možda je i najbolje tako, ne o?ekuješ pomo? i ne bojiš se izdaje. Sam. U?ini?u sve što mogu, ne uzdaju?i se u podršku koje nema, i onda je moje sve što postignem, i zlo i dobro.

Nemamo prava da i od koga zahtijevamo da brine naše brige.

Tako je bolje,bez slatkih rije?i,bez praznog smješka,bez varanja. Sve je lijepo dok ništa ne tražimo,a prijatelje je opasno iskušavati. ?ovjek je vjeran samo sebi.

Why did a strong woman need to be her own shield

Being alone was something that Faith had perfected over the years. When you were alone you didn't have to worry about every little detail on your body, whether your legs were like prickly pears or whether after a cocktail party you were Brie-breathed. Unlike many people she knew, she often preferred her own company.

The men she met all seemed to say they were "several years out of Wesleyan." Their beds were never made, or else made poorly, when she climbed into them. No one yet had the time or inclination to take care of themselves, and it was unclear when that would ever begin.

Apparently you didn't require air when you were a teenager. You made your own air.

There are some places a person can go where no one else can follow them. And sometimes you just have to trust that they know what they're doing.

There is no team in I

She said I'd better not make her unhappy because I oughta know that she's never unhappy alone.

I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.

once a woman is "able to stand alone"—as certainly the Tribune's star, healed by Dr. Leger, could boast—"then she will not make an imperfect man her god . . . Then, if she finds what she needs in Man embodied, she will know how to love, and be worthy of being loved.

Fortunately for me, I'm still evolving into the person I'm supposed to be. And though they don't know it yet, and may not come to accept it, I'm done living by their protocols or anyone else's. I'm the only one who will take credit for my successes. And I'm the only one who will take the blame for my mistakes. From now on, I live for me.

We help others only as much as they let us.