Self Quotes - Page 4

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

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.

You've got to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Independence is happiness.

Susan B. Anthony

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.

Susan B. Anthony

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.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Brigitte Bardot

Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.

The best bet is to bet on yourself.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Do for yourself or do without.

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan but to have any meaning or viability at all a life plan must include intimate relationships.

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.

A secure individual... knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

J. C. F. von Schiller

We're all in this together ... alone.

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.

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.

Barbara De Angelis

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.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

John Gay

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

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.

God hates those who praise themselves.

If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it And blow your own trumpet Or trust me you haven't a chance.

Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth.

Bible

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

Augusta Gregory

I don't follow precedent I establish it.

Fanny Ellen Holtzman

Your future depends on many things but mostly on you.

The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune.

Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom?

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.

François de La Rochefoucauld

The wise don't expect to find life worth living they make it that way.

Anonymous

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me if I fail to make my own choices the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

To be a man is precisely to be responsible.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

William Graham Sumner

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility place it in our hands and carry it with dignity and strength.

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua

We are free up to the point of choice then the choice controls the chooser.

To be born free is an accident to live free a responsibility to die free is an obligation.

Mrs. Hubbard Davis

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

I'm not overweight I'm just nine inches too short.

Shelley Winters

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

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