Veronica Roth Quotes

I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because their might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready.

I've learned how to function in chaos.

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

As my family saw them, men were untrustworthy, weak, and selfish. Our mother taught us to get along without them, to get along without much of anything, and to live well and have fun anyway.

My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travelled thousands of miles, often on my own. My parents were like my friends, so it felt like I didn't really have parents at all. But in a crazy way that was very liberating. It forced me to be independent, maybe a leader, and certainly a survivor.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.

You like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. It doesn't make you weak.

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

We can and we will solve our problems for ourselves. We know how. We can, and we will.

The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.

My survival skills are very good for Hollywood. Beyond that, I'm not really sure.