Quotes About Self-reliance

I think it's about time to save myself

I think it's about time I saved myself

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," he said.

You are strong and young, and you will find a way out of this darkness. But that path will belong to you. No one else.

You bring your own weather in your life.

She was afraid, but she couldn't just sit around waiting for someone to save her. She had to try to save herself, try to figure it out.

I'm mine. Not anyone else's.

Leslie? What are you doing?" -"Choosing. I'm mine. Not anyone else's." -"I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl.

You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.

We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without." p 167 love always found itself again.

Why do you give people so much power over you? That M.D. behind his name just means that he's trained to facilitate your healing. You're the one who's actually got to make it happen. Therapy doesn't work unless you know what you want out of it. You're the one who has the power to change things.

Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

Success is not served in a tray, To achieve it we have to make our own way, I would like to end by saying that opportunity is within, To fall down on our journey is not a sin, But our failure should not hold our steps forward, And for our dreams, we should never feel awkward

I longed to stabilize my core identity and to withstand the pressure of other people's words, behaviors, moods, and perceptions. I wanted to be less easily thrown.

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

do things because you think it's right not because others do.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

Do you want help?" "No." "Do you need help?

I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.

Swedes don't like to ask favors of each other: they keep their problems to themselves and suffer in silence. Being duktig is one facet of this: if you are duktig then you don't need any help, and as duktighet is the ultimate ideal for Swedes; to ask for help - or even to give it - is a kind of low-level social taboo.

If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You can't just wish for it and you can't put it in the hands of other people.

You'll never get over your need until you can walk away from it on your own.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.