Quotes about Self-reliance
The worst things you can do for the ones you love are the things they could and should do for themselves"—and
- John Wooden
Be true to yourself. You know what's right. Don't let someone else decide for you.
- John Wooden
The interesting thing about this work is that we don't really do anything for them. If we tried, I think, we would fail miserably. Instead we invite them to do something radically new for themselves
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
- John Malkovich
Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.
- Malcolm X
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Fear is trusting in your own power.
- Marianne Williamson
In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
- Wayne Dyer
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain