Quotes about Self-reliance
But instead of telling him what to think, I taught him how to think. He then reached a bold decision about what to do, on his own.
— Clayton M. Christensen
when I ask you to earn money and have a room of your own, I am asking you to live in the presence of reality, an invigorating life, it would appear, whether one can impart it or not.
— Virginia Woolf
I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me
— Virginia Woolf
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
— Lao Tzu
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
— Lao Tzu
she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.
— Charles Dickens
When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature.
— Charles Dickens
No man that lives can satisfy everybody. The recipe for perfect peace is, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
— Elbert Hubbard
We must be our own, before we can be another's.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe in miracles but don't depend on them.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
— Marilyn Monroe
The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.
— Diane von Furstenberg