self-reliant mindset Quotes

You can't rely on anything. At the end of the day, all you have is yourself.

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

Once a man's will is set, he need no longer rely on others or expect anything from the world. His vision encompasses Heaven and earth, past and present, and the tranquility of his heart is undisturbed.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.

The Virgin (and I'm not speaking here of a sexual virgin) is the one whose search springs from her complete independence, and everything she learns is the fruit of her ability to face challenges alone.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.

In the end you have only you.

Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.

I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.

I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

I have always played a lone hand. It is the way my mind works. I have to do my own seeing and my own thinking. But I can tell you that after the market began to go my way I felt for the first time in my life that I had allies - the strongest and truest in the world: underlying conditions. They were helping me with all their might.

A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

You can't trust others unless you trust yourself.

Just me and my nuts, that's all I got in this world.

This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt Peg had done that. Ginny knew she never would. That either made her someone who worked hard and finished things, or someone who didn't have the guts to break away from the pack. Maybe both.

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.