The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life whether the case be one of coolish baked beans or an unrequited affection.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
For the great benefits of our being- our life health and reason-we look upon ourselves.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
~ Meryl Streep
A secure individual... knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.
~ Harry Browne
We're all in this together ... alone.
~ Lily Tomlin
No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.
~ Louis Brandeis
We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
~ Barbara De Angelis
No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Women share with men the need for personal success even the taste for power and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates whether husbands children or merely role models.
~ Elizabeth Dole
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
~ John Gay
Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.
~ Jane Fonda
It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.
~ Betty Friedan
Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say Well white people kept me back and I can't do this. Not so. You can have anything you want if you make up your mind and you want it.
~ Clara Mcbride Hale
The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours.
~ Jules Jusserano
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.
~ Sidney J. Phil
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
~ Sally Field
There is no such thing as vicarious experience.
~ Mary Parker Follett
I love being single. It's almost like being rich.
~ Sue Grafton
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
~ Swedish Proverb
Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
~ Thomas Fuller
You've got to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
~ Irish Proverb
Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.
~ Agnes Macphail
Only those means of security are good are certain are lasting that depend on yourself and your own vigor.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
~ Diane Ackerman
Independence is happiness.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.
Every man paddles his own canoe.
~ Frederick Marryat
If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If you want a thing done go if not send.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
~ William Shakespeare
If it is to be it is up to me.
~ Anonymous
There are three types of baseball players-those who make it happen those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happened.
~ Tommy Lasorda
Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.
~ Bum Phillips
I leave before being left. I decide.
~ Brigitte Bardot
No man may make another free.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
The best things in life must come by effort from within not by gifts from the outside.
~ Fred Corson
Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
When I saw something that needed doing I did it.
~ Nellie Cashman
The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
