Quotes about Self-reliance
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
Some women chasing men, and some - for dreams. If you are at a fork, remember, your career will not wake up one morning to say that more does not love you.
- Lady Gaga
If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Tigers cannot afford to care about what sheep think.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird does not fly because of the wind around it, but because of the strength within it.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
I really started from grassroots, without a handout or anything.
- E-40
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher