Quotes About Self-reliance

In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that regardless of what has happened or why, this is your life and you are the only one equipped to deal with it.

Trust your own eyes. Only you can determine what is happening in your life and what to do about it. The

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Putting up food is, at its heart, an optimistic thing. It's a bold way to say: I will be sticking around.

When I die, I will not be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.

Büyümek, yaln?z tutunanlara gerekli.

Kendimize isimler vermeyelim, yapt???m?z i?lerle varolal?m, bunun d???nda kalan bütün sahte unvanlar?, kurumlar?, insan?n kendini üstün bir ?ey saymas?na yolaçan düzenleri yok sayal?m...

Bir dostun varl??? güzel bir ?eydir; fakat bir dosta ihtiyaç duymadan ya?ayabilmektir önemli olan.

Ben, tek ba??ma ya?amal?y?m; ba?kalar?n? zehirlememeliyim.

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

There is no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge for you.

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.

Frankly, it never occurred to me that I needed someone who looked like me to show me the way. I was ignorant and arrogant and persistent and the writing left me no choice at all."9

But there's no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge for you.

She glanced at him. "What gods do you respect?" "None." "And why not?" "I help myself," he said.

For myself …In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

Dad warned us all about water stations, trying to prepare us in case we ever went out and got caught far enough from home to be tempted to stop for water. His advice: "Don't do it. Suffer. Get your rear end home." Yeah.

Poor doesn't matter as much if you can make a place for yourself and be respected.

I think people who traveled to extrasolar worlds would be on their own—far from politicians and business people, failing economies and tortured ecologies—and far from help. Well out of the shadow of their parent world.

too. A woman should have something of her own." Doro

Nothing is going to save us. If we don't save ourselves, we're dead.

Act as a kind of gang? No. Not quite a gang. We aren't gang types. I don't want gang types with their need to dominate, rob and terrorize. And yet we might have to dominate. We might have to rob to survive, and even terrorize to scare off or kill enemies. We'll have to be very careful how we allow our needs to shape us. But we must have arable land, a dependable water supply, and enough freedom from attack to let us establish ourselves and grow.

For my people, I respect the gods. I speak as the voice of a god. For myself... in my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune.