Quotes About Self-reliance

I think a very key thing for women is to refuse to let anyone tell you you're banned, you're out of fashion, you don't look the right way. Put your energy into a career that will be there for you regardless of the naysayers.

I had grown up with very little parental input, so I learned to be über-responsible, self-reliant, and self-sufficient. As a result, I never wanted to seem

I had grown up with very little parental input, so I learned to be über-responsible, self-reliant, and self-sufficient. As a result, I never wanted to seem like I needed help or to impose on anyone else.

If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

Fasting is the greatest remedy, the physician within.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

The average European, whether male or female, is extremely sensitive, always ready to shoulder the blame for the poverty of Africa or Asia, to sorrow over the world's problems, to assume responsibility for them, always ready to ask what Europeans can do for the South rather than asking what the South could do for itself.

I've never had anyone's approval, so I've learned to live without it.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

It's not that you should never love someone so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness- It's your best strength-

The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

Adam decided that since I was going to keep getting into trouble, the only thing he could so was try to ensure I could get myself out of it, too.

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

Silvia was tough, smart, and could survive on herown - she didn't need a handsome prince to ride up and rescue her. But that didn't mean such a man might not want to protect her from everything he could, anyway.

If you want to stay here, that's something different. But thinking that you are the only one who can possibly keep her company - that's a trap." (p. 320)

I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

Paradoxically, Controllers usually see themselves as self-reliant even while they are dependent upon others to maintain their backwards connections and their fragile identity. They often carry the banner of rugged independence, of needing no one, while launching an ever-accelerating assault upon someone else's individuality. They are most threatened by Witnesses who do not conform to their particular idea of how things should be.

My thoughts are my own—I will not modify them to receive the approval of others. My feelings are my own—I will not silence them to make others comfortable. My life is my own—I will not shape it according to the expectations of others. I live in harmony with my natural cycles, deepest wisdom, and truest self. And so it is.

Sometimes she saw herself as a one-woman rescue operation

She'd stand on her own two feet if she had to crawl.

You will know what to do yourself. Great girl, a stór.

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Sewing on a button, like avoiding eye contact on the subway, is a basic life skill. Along with How to Windex a Mirror and How to Make English Muffin Pizza, sewing on a button was taught in the seventh grade by Miss Almeida in home ec. But home ec isn't on New York school curricula anymore. Home ec has gone the way of health class, where we learned you COULD get it from a doorknob.