Self Reliance Quotes

The Creator is Sovereign Lord.We are Sovereign being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am only one. The best person I can possibly be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Golden possibilities exist in every adversity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We wonder with our thoughts.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Think and imagine the possibilities of your heart's desires. You will attract them to you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to renew your mind with positive thoughts daily.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I can take care of myself,” I said hotly.“Darlin, you don't even know how to pleasure yourself.

~ Nenia Campbell

Each day, write a thankful note.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

~ Susan B. Anthony

He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.

~ George R.r. Martin

The greatest thing to conquer is self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it.

~ David Anthony Durham

Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be, in its flight, something more than itself?

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the string, collecting itselfto be more than itself as it shoots?

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems.

~ Gary Hopkins

Never compete with any man but yourself. Seek to develop yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a great adventure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You may be operating from the belief that you must do everything yourself because no one will ever be there for you. Or you may think that if you never speak up you’ll avoid being rejected. Both these fears no longer apply to you today as an adult. If you never reach out for help, you will continue to deprive yourself.

~ Beverly Engel

With great enthusiasm and determination you will master the art in your field.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He looked down at the books. There was a long silence. Then he raised his eyes and directed his gaze at Gershon, and Gershon did not look away. I will tell you, Loran what is of importance is not that there may be nothing. We have always acknowledged that as a possibility. What is important is that if indeed there is nothing, then we should be prepared to make something out of the one thing we have left to us -- ourselves. I do not know what else to tell you, Loran. No one is in possession of all wisdom. No one. Gershon sat in silence, looking at Nathan Malkuson.

~ Chaim Potok

Being your own light ensures that you will never need another to pull you out of darkness again.

~ Gary Hopkins

The divinity of the soul; life, light and love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.

~ Jodi Picoult

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.

~ David Gemmell

We must endeavor to be whole, whether in or out of a relationship, basing happiness on our own internal resources rather than relying on someone else to full the perceived gaps in our lives.

~ Shane Eric Mathias

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conquer no man but thyself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A dream conceived from the inside-out eventually becomes reality. But a dream desired from the outside-in is subject to spoil and tragedy.

~ T.f. Hodge

Live a life that you do not need to take a vacation from. Live in a way that makes yearly resolutions unnecessary. Make the kind of choices that leave you Happy and Healthy... where all of your needs are satisfied. Live a life where your only ‘wants’ are for others to feel as good as you do.

~ Gary Hopkins

You must love and respect yourself enough to never be a victim under any circumstance.

~ Gary Hopkins

You can only depend on one person and that is you.

~ Debasish Mridha

In the travellers’ world, social media have enlarged the generation gap. The internet has brought a change in the very concept of travel as a process taking one away from the familiar into the unknown. Now the familiar is not left behind and the unknown has become familiar even before one leaves home. Unpredictability – to my generation the salt that gave travelling its savour – seems unnecessary if not downright irritating to many of the young. The sunset challenge – where to sleep? – has been banished by the ease of booking into a hostel or organised campsite with a street plan provided by the internet. Moreover, relatives and friends evidently expect regular reassurance about the traveller’s precise location and welfare – and vice versa, the traveller needing to know that all is well back home. Notoriously, dependence on instant communication with distant family and friends is known to stunt the development of self-reliance. Perhaps that is why, amongst younger travellers, one notices a new timidity.

~ Dervla Murphy

[Sylvia Plath] was now far along a peculiarly solitary road on which not many would risk following her. So it was important for her to know that her messages were coming back clear and strong. Yet not even her determinedly bright self-reliance could disguise the loneliness that came from her almost palpably, like a heat haze. She asked for neither sympathy nor help but, like bereaved widow at a wake, she simply wanted company in her mourning.

~ Al Álvarez

Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or engaged in consumption...We lose sight of our resources, lose control over the environmental conditions which make these resources applicable, lose taste for self-reliant coping with challenges from without and anxiety from within.

~ Ivan Illich

She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushes, like fever, of contentment. I am beyond fear of solitude, she thought, I am past it. The idea thrilled her. I am beyond it and I will not sink. This submission, this triumph made her stronger. It was as if finally, after having passed through inferior stages, her life had found a form worthy of it.

~ James Salter

Self-education is self-empowerment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

~ Marcus Aurelius