Quotes About Self-reliance

The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.

Wilbur looked at the list glumly. "Are you sure you need all this stuff?""Yep.""The ax?""The ax is critical.""The c

She hadn't just drunk the Salvation Kool-Aid - she'd started to brew her own.

A woman needs a man like a tuba needs a cucumber.

I ain't taking no more rides on the stupid train.

i'm only an independent woman when there's nothing heavy to carry

alone but trying to survive alone.

I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.

I don't care what other people think about me. Most people are idiots, and they can think whatever they want.

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

I'm keeping myself to myself. And I like it that way. I'm not hunting. I'm the opposite of a - what would a male cougar be? Is there such a thing? Whatever it is, I'm not that.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.