Quotes About Self-reliance

And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.

How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so.

I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

Take people's advice and guidance in the beginning, but always follow your instincts first

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from.

You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself.

Guidance is everything, you have to accept that somebody is their own person, an individual.

I want to help put some of the pieces together for people. I want to empower people so they don't have to keep going to others outside of themselves for guidance.

Our daily prayer ought to be: Please universe, help me help myself and help me show others how to help themselves.

Don't entrust your future on others' hands. Rather make decisions by yourself with the help of God's guidance. Hold your beliefs so tight and never let go of them!

You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

Find your happiness in yourself.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Don't ever put your happiness in someone else's hands. They'll drop it. They'll drop it every time.

I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.

My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Your happiness depends on you alone.

No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.