Quotes About Self-reliance

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

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.

Whether or not you go in a positive direction depends entirely on you. You have to be your own teacher and try to figure out what it takes to accomplish your goals. You have to be your own judge and try to get yourself to do the right thing and stop yourself from doing the wrong thing. Take responsibility for yourself. (17th Karmapa)

But this had always been part of his work—no matter how vast the security apparatus behind you, the fact was that, in the end, you were alone.

If no one out there understands Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman. —BILLY BRAGG, "WAITING FOR THE GREAT LEAP FORWARDS

She's a loner, she doesn't care about being around people. So neither failure nor success concerns her.

Put your trust in God but be sure to keep your powder dry.

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.

Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.

If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.

A person who buys excuses will soon attempt to sell them to others.

You cannot expect others to believe in you until you believe in yourself.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Your security is not in the hands of [Democratic presidential candidate John] Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands and each state which does not harm our security will remain safe.