Quotes About Self-reliance

I've found the secret of happiness, total disregard of everybody.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook.

All the happiness, self-confidence, and support you're seeking is already within you.

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

You don't need others to change in order to be happy.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

It's more important to be free than to be happy.

Your excitement, motivation, energy, happiness should be dependent on – YOU and YOU ONLY!!!!!

Making someone responsible for your misery also makes them responsible for your happiness. Why give that power to anyone but yourself?

Only you are responsible for your life and for your life and making it a happy life

Sometimes you have to create your own sunshine.

I'm not a puzzle piece to someone else's puzzle, I'm my own puzzle that is still growing. I'm unsure of what it'll look like when it's done, but it will be uniquely me.

Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions

If someone left, mean not your happiness gone surely, Happiness dependant not on others but yourself but be.[223] - 4 (Thoughts)

Never let people who are more unhappy than you tell you how to live your life.