Quotes About Self-reliance

No ride. So I couldn't go home. No plan. No boyfriend. No job.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

What if I have become sure that personal freedom is the thing I hold most dear?

Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble!

Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!

God generously helps to those who try to do their best without asking God's help!

God helps to those who try to do their best without asking God's help!

Help is not in the sky, help is within you, in your mind; help is your reason! Turn your face to your reason not to the sky!

Life gives us clay; it is we to make a pot out of it! But sometimes it gives us pot; it is again we to keep it in one piece, as a pot! All jobs are ours! Life only gives things and it has no other responsibility!

No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!

No one can save you, no one but your very reason! Therefore, improve your reason!

Open the door by yourself instead of waiting the door to be opened by itself!

The footprints of a free-minded man are always towards the forward direction.

The system wants you to be either a bow or an arrow; refuse both, because there is a third choice: To be an archer!

when we stop knowing how to use our hands to meet our most basic needs—we become estranged from nature, from the value and meaning of things, and from the empathy that we need to care for one another and our world.

You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

Because being so dependent on people scares me.

Oh, you're one of those,' the princess said. 'One of what?' 'One of those who needs to be told their worth over and over by others. Do you know who tells me my worth, Phaedra of Alonso?' The princess pointed a hard finger at her own chest. 'Me. I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others I'd have lain down and died waiting.

You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.

I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.

I stand up and walk towards her because my days of waiting for more are over. If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.

You're going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.' 'The mule and I have an agreement.' 'The mule and you have similar traits.

I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I'd have lain down and died waiting.

So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around? What will be left of me then?