Quotes About Self-reliance

Psychologically [the proliferation of] silent reading emboldened the reader because it placed the source of his curiosity completely under personal control.

You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here.

She had to make her own marvelous mistakes.

I understood the connexion between his idea, and my idea that no one had any rights over me, that there wasn't anyone I was answerable to except myself.

Don't come crying to me, Stanley. Fight your own battles." Fight my own battles? I'm five!

Don't get drawn into the other person's extreme reactions; trust your instincts and form your own judgments.

To get unstuck, you must take a different approach. Stop focusing so much on your family member and take a close look at yourself. Work on becoming more of your own person.

Acknowledging that you have the authority to make your own decisions is the first step toward making new choices and changing your life for the better.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? "She drove me to my practice at four in the morning," etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master - any master - then let the rest of us know, will you.

Norman believes in his own abilities. He believes what his parents taught him, that a clever man will rise like yeast if he is careful. He

J' étais prétentieux, disait l'un de mes professeurs ; farfelu, disaient mes camarades, à l'exception de mon ami Claude Laurent (car j'aimais et aimerai l'amitié et aurai toujours des amis). Il m'a donc fallu apprendre à devenir indifférent à l'opinion d'autrui.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it

I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.

A school cannot exist as a permanent form of education. It can only exist until the student discovers that they can learn more themselves from the real world. From that moment on the majority always look for the most promising place the highest wisdom outside of school, with the result of schooling always collapsing over lifes education.

My mother said, neutrally, that other children in the neighborhood were able to amuse themselves; they didn't seem to need adults to be involved with their pastimes. With a disinclined air, she taught me how to play solitaire.

We prize "freedom to" so much more than "freedom from.

Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl who stood up for herself and took care of business, who cut guys loose when it was required.

They'd scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms—not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.

Can anyone tell you when you're grown up?" Another

what I'd really like to know is how it feels to be on my own. Not someone's daughter or wife, I mean…but my own person." "Oh." It seemed I'd surprised him. "There isn't a lot of that kind of thinking around here." "Of course there is," I told him, trying to draw a smile. "It's just usually a man who's doing it.

We can only go the limits of ourselves-I've learned that if nothing else. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone.