Quotes about Self-reliance

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.

But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes without someone getting in her business, informing her that everything she did was wrong. As if she didn't already know that.

I'd thrown my fate away once, and I would never again allow other people's opinions rule my life. As a girl I'd done what was necessary, but I was a girl no longer.

I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.

You can tell just by looking at her that she never backed down or valued anyone's opinion above her own. She always believed that experience was not simply the best teacher, it was the only one

Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.

A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.

Be wary of people who play up to your weaknesses as a way to convince you that you need them in your life. They'll try to make you think you're not smart enough on your own. You're not talented enough, and you need them to make up for what you're lacking. Don't believe those lies.

You need to take back control of your happiness. Quit putting it in someone else's hands. Make up your mind that no matter what people do, no matter what they say, how they treat you, they're not going to steal your joy.