Quotes about Self-reliance

Every child has to raise itself." Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately, people shape their own characters.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

Pick me, pick me" acknowledges the power of the system and passes responsibility to someone else to initiate. Even better, "pick me, pick me" moves the blame from you to them. If you don't get picked, it's their fault, not yours. If you do get picked, well, they said you were good, right? Not your fault anymore. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

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.

No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.

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.

Life helps those who help themselves.

You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

Take charge of your life or someone else will!

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.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.