#reliance

I'd rather die my way than live yours. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#lena-holoway #self-determination #self-reliance #die

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance. ↗

— Al Spalding

#boy #gives #growing #poise #reliance

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#lack #poverty #self-reliance

Jerry-5486: "The most apparent thing that I noticed was how most of the people in this study derive their sense of identity and well-being from their immediate surroundings rather than from within themselves, and that's why they broke down—just couldn't stand the pressure—they had nothing within them to hold up against all of this. ↗

— Philip G. Zimbardo

#prison #self-reliance #stanford-prison-experiment #experience

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds. ↗

— Bob Marley

#independent-thought #self-reliance #song-lyrics #freedom

My books are friends that never fail me." (Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817) ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#friends #friendship #reliance #trust #friendship

you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#inspirational #ownership #resourcefulness #responsibility #self-help

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. ↗

— Nancy Kress

#self-reliance #success #intelligence

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#self-reliance #nature

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#self-reliance #mankind