Self-reliance Quotes

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy....

He looked down at the books. There was a long silence. Then he raised his eyes and directed his gaze...

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.

Versifying left her cold. Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for ...

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray yo...

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to ...

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? Ther...

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to th...

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or e...

She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushe...

It was why no sane cat allowed kits to come anywhere near human beings. Humans seemed to feel that i...

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened whe...

When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they ...

When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they ...

When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they ...

When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they ...

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I...

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth...

I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to so...

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to s...

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an up...

Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:as the arro...

Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured:as the ar...

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that ...

The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere...

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirm...

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

I don't confuse my digestive system, I just season simple food with hunger

I enjoy working for my heat. I don't just press a button or twist a thermostat dial. I use the big c...

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; t...

Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to ...

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best li...

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybod...

The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it p...

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.You must travel it by yourself.It is not far. It...

Here must thou be, O man,Strength to thyself — no helper hast thou here —Here keepest thou thy indiv...

[Sylvia Plath] was now far along a peculiarly solitary road on which not many would risk following h...