Quotes About Self-reliance

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

When you look outside yourself for affirmation, you give extraordinary power to the affirmer. When people have extraordinary power, they tend to abuse it.

As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic!

Wake up! Don't let them control you. Don't let them impose an identity on you. Don't obey them. Never submit to a prophet or a holy book. Think for yourself. Wear what you like. Eat what you like. Pray when you like. Don't you want to be free rather than a slave? Create your own identity. Create yourself. Because only those who do can become God. Nietzsche, an atheist, came far closer to the True God than any follower of any mainstream religion.

You shape yourself, you make yourself. There is no one to save you other than yourself. It's not Christ, Mohammed or Moses who's responsible for your life, it's you. In the end, souls judge themselves.

There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said.

Maybe, I thought, Knight would talk about the marrow. He sat quietly, whether thinking or fuming or both, it was hard to tell. But he eventually arrived at a reply. It felt like some great mystic was about to revel the meaning of life. "Get enough sleep," he said. He set his jaw in a way that conveyed he wouldn't be saying any more. This was what he had learned. I accepted it as truth.

The only book Knight didn't steal was the one he most often saw. 'I had no need for a Bible,' he said.

Christopher Knight, you could argue, is the most solitary known person in all of human history.

He does not care if people fail to understand what he did in the woods. He didn't do it for us to understand.

People are to be taken in very small doses," wrote Emerson. "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Only Robinson Crusoe got it all done by Friday!

But people's ability to take personal responsibility is shaped by their circumstances. People cannot take responsibility if they cannot control what happens to them.

Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.

There is nothing harder than being your own rock.

You not trapped girl. Not unless you nailed to the floor.

Those who need leaders are not qualified to choose them.

To presume that we have received in advance a precise decryption of the symbolic prophecies in the book of Revelation—a route map or survivalist manual, as it were—is to weaken our faculty of discernment and our openness to the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the angels. This weakness can lead us to the tyranny of unholy fears on one hand or to self-reliance on the other, and both reactions will bring about increased vulnerability to the adversary's deceptions.

The only entitlement guaranteed should be the fruits of one's own labor.

If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.

Still, he thought, there was no luck at all in standing still. The next morning he would crawl forward again. If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.

Glass spotted another dog by the creek, and this one he did not spare. Soon he had a fire burning in the center of the hut. Part of the dog he roasted on a spit over the fire and part he boiled in the kettle. He threw corn into the pot with the dog meat and continued his search through the village.

but I have grown accustomed to living alone, having one-sides conversations and arguments with myself that I still manage to lose.