Quotes about Self-reliance
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
- Alan Hirsch
We forge the chains we wear in life.
- Charles Dickens
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.
- Albert Ellis
You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.
- Oprah Winfrey
A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.
- Jennifer Aniston
I'll not do anything, though you should swear your tongue out, except what I please!
- Emily Bronte
Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.
- Epictetus
Content yourself with being a lover of wisdom, a seeker of the truth. Return and return again to what is essential and worthy. Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.
- Epictetus
Where are you going to find serenity and independence — in something free, or something enslaved?
- Epictetus
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good. CXXIII
- Epictetus
When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval.
- Epictetus
Free is the person who lives as he wishes - And cannot be coerced, impeded, or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires, and never has to experience what he would rather avoid.
- Epictetus