Quotes About Self-reliance

The arrows expect no mercy from no one

She gave a frustrated little cry. "Everyone thinks I should be wrapped up in cotton wool and babied-when I'm not being pitied, that is! But I'm no tame housecat. I never have been. What was done to me didn't alter that. I'm attracted to Judd's strength-give me a nice gentle puppy dog of a man and I'd drive him to tears within the hour.

Thank you," she said, running her foot over his shin, "for loving me enough to let me fight my own battles.

Would you give me anything I asked?" in a tone laced with power. White lines bracketed his lips. "I'll be no one's slave.

Elena "DüÅŸersem beni tutmazlar m??" diye sordu ona bakmadan. "Ancak canlar? isterse." sy.24

I think at a certain point, a person must take responsibility for being their own person. To look forever backward..." She thought of the pile of returned letters her mother hoarded in a trunk, letters Camio hadn't even bothered to open. "It's stagnation and obsession.

Strength doesn't mean never relying on anyone.

It is a hard thing to let your children near danger, and yet, I remember my Papa teaching me to fire a rifle before I could even hold it with my own strength. And if he hadn't trusted me to be careful, I would have never had faith in myself to do it.

Más tarde, ella me dijo que no le importaba lo que pensara nadie, excepto yo.

Seeing themselves as hardworking and self-reliant, the upwardly mobile sons of white trash parents believed, as Smith put it, that "he is responsible for himself and himself alone." The same self-made man who looked down on white trash others had conveniently chosen to forget that his own parents escaped the tar-paper shack only with the help of the federal government. But now that he had been lifted to respectability, he would pull up the social ladder behind him.

Whether we make our own money or rely on someone else, many of us would rater pretend our financial matters don't exist. Or we hope they'll just take care of themselves somehow. My ex-husband was like that. He always said, "I bank by prayer. I go to the ATM and pray that money will come out.

I hope I'll never get ambitious enough to try anything. It's so much nicer to be damned sure I could do it better than other people - and I might not could if I tried...

If you want anything good, get it from yourself," Epictetus

The only way for me to be safe and free was to be - be what my name decreed me. Enola. Alone.

People make what they need for themselves.

So I went walking, like the independent woman I am.

fuck fate. We make our own destinies.

no one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.