Charlotte Bronte Quotes

I'm an honest person and don't lead my life on other people's terms.

Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

I do not want to give my power, my self-esteem, or my autonomy, to any person, place, or thing outside myself... The only thing that matters is how I feel about myself, my personal integrity, and my relationship with my Creator.

I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.

I don't need to be liked.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.

I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.

If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

I don't have to prove anything.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

We aren’t here to be loved.

The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her. She will be her own individual self... Stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strength.