Quotes about Self-reliance

I will not serve"—

Do you know when she started praising the Wallers so highly?" Mama went on. "The day she left them. As long as she was there, she had nothing but complaints. The Wallers couldn't compare with the van Hooks where she'd been before. But at the van Hooks she'd actually been miserable. Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings, Corrie. It's something we make inside ourselves.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

Sooner or later, you have to shed your family's expectations and run the race on your own.

The best bet is to bet on yourself.

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.

I'm single because I was born that way.

Every man must bear his own burden.

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!