Quotes About Self-reliance

As you assume that you are what you want to be, you do not need the assistance of another to make it so. Neither do you need the assistance of anyone to bury the old man for you. Let the dead bury the dead. Do not even look back, for no man having put his hand to the plow and then looking back is fit for the kingdom of heaven.

Being single doesn't mean you're weak, it means that you're strong enough to wait for the right person.

The fact is, I did not appreciate until much later in my own life what subterfuge and sacrifice it took to be independent and undefeated by the pressures of reality.

It seems to fit. I feel comfortable in my own skin. I feel like I'm able to claim my own person. At least I'm making a start. I'm learning to stand on my own.

I'm not some total invalid

As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are—what others say is irrelevant.

It is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself up by his bootstraps. —DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

puesto que de ese modo puede conseguir su manumisión, mientras que mendigar envilece el espíritu. Por fin, tras indagar varias veces la dirección, logramos encontrar el camino que conducía a la puerta de Adad.

The secret of good government is to let men alone.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd.

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

I am the light, she thought. I am not a maid. I am the light. Cold as a sword. I will show no weakness.

I wanted them to learn something unique to them, that came from them, not an artificial overlay that would evaporate in the first flash of fear adrenaline if they were ever threatened.

I missed you showing me things, making them magic. So I decided to find them myself. Like this.

Here on her own turf she looked different: more whole and competent; denser somehow.

Without anyone to please, she no longer bent and swayed. No longer willow but oak.

No one knew me; there was no one to compare my behaviour in the shop with my behaviour at other times. I could be fluid and responsible only to myself.

I was the one who helped, the competent one, armored and invulnerable. Aud rhymes with proud.

Man matures when he stops believing that politics solves his problems.

The cause of the modern disease is the conviction that man can cure himself.

Yoga, because it is focused so much on developing our inner mind rather than keeping up with outer names and forms, is all about independent thinking.

Nature didn't tell me Don't be poor; and certainly didn't say: Get rich; but she did shout: Always be independent!

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.