Quotes About Self-reliance

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.

If you don't give a damn what the rest of the world is up to, you can be alone for a hundred years—a thousand years—with no difficulty whatsoever.

It's because people have aspirations and ambitions that solitude wears on them. If you don't have a damn about what the rest of the world is up to, you can be alone for a hundred years- a thousand years- with no difficulty whatsoever. At least, you can if you don't let criticism bother you.

Self confidence is a super power. Once you start to believe in yourself, magic starts happening.

We tend to say, "But God could never have called me to this. I'm too unworthy. It can't mean me." It does mean you, and the more weak and feeble you are, the better. The person who is still relying and trusting in anything within himself is the last person to even come close to saying, "I will serve the Lord.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God. The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.

Will and loneliness are at bottom the same.

Every child has to raise itself.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda

But the thing with us was, we didn't really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.

The principle that first you try to solve your problems on your own and only turn to others as a last resort applies to friends. We have an obligation to show our friends that we are turning to them for a favor not because it happens to be convenient for us to do so but because of a compelling reason.

Not yet. I don't know what I'm so happy about. But it doesn't matter whether Ma agrees or not. I can make my own decisions. I'm a person, the same as the rest of you.

You can only trust yourself... and barely that.

I learned that if I always performed a rescue, the woman never learned to lean on God…..I now realize that I shouldn't work harder at a person's recovery than she is willing to work.

Picking Another Channel "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.

No one bestowed courage or freedom or self-determination - one simply decided to take it.

The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children have learned to talk, adults don't praise them for saying just anything. They praise them for saying interesting things, and for speaking well.

Autonomy is something fundamental that your child needs. (Francoise Dolto said that by age six, a child should be able to do everything at home that concerns him.)

The de'clic (DEH-kleek) is an aha moment when a child figures out how to do something important on his own...it's a welcome sign of maturity and autonomy.

by setting out purposefully to raise a reader—you're helping her become someone who controls her own destiny.

One of the best pieces of advice I've ever received was from my grandmother, who said, "A woman always has to keep something of her own, even if it's a jar of quarters." The other was from my agent, another wise woman, who told me twenty years ago: "You don't have to tell everything you know.