Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

You can't rely on anything. At the end of the day, all you have is yourself.

It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.

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

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

There's no better way to be than depending on yourself.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.

I don't need government to be successful.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

Never count on the crowd to take care of you.

I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

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

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

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

Every tub must stand upon its bottom.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.