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Quotes about Self-reliance

This desire for external approval and authority directly undermines your ability to trust yourself, because you've handed this trust over to an institution instead. Now, more and more of us are seeing that it's a fraud. The institutions have no magical powers, as they're regularly proved wrong in their ability to select, to mold, and to amplify human beings who care enough to make change happen.
- Seth Godin
No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.
- Michael Hyatt
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life helps those who help themselves.
- Robin Sharma
You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!
- Stephen Covey
Take charge of your life or someone else will!
- John Hagee
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk.
- Ayn Rand
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
- Ayn Rand
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
- Ayn Rand
I don't want anything handed to me, I want to work for everything I have... that's the way I've done everything in my life.
- Christian Cage
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
He loved also to think, I did it! And I believe the only people who are free from that weakness are those who have no work to call their own.
- George Eliot