Self Reliance Quotes

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." "Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else." "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." "A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her" "Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice." "I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves" "The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice" "I'm very independent." "The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions" "You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing" "As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe you don't move" "A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself" "Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are." "I belong to nobody, hope it doesn't bother you" "All I got is myself and my music." "These problems were not created by government action, or government inaction. We created them, and only we can fix them" "A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up." "Never follow the crowd." "I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand." "Independence is happiness."