Og Mandino Quotes

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

Greeks have always been very confident, very strong people. That is - that is our real, I guess, benefit, is that we are independent thinkers. We will always get up on our feet. We - we sometimes act the best when we are downtrodden.

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

I have stood on my own feet.

Whatever I do I will do on my own strength.

Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.

Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior, Standing on my own two feet.

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

I've always been my own person. Everything I've ever done in my life I did the hard way.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone.

I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.

I don't need to be liked.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.

I'm such a strong-headed person and so stubborn, I don't need someone to be sweet to me.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

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

All I've ever needed is myself.

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.