Osama bin Laden Quotes

It emasculated people to be protected in this way... [They should] be used to protecting themselves.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

I'm very realistic about who's coming to my defense. I am my defense.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

You have to have your own back.

The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

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

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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

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.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

Unless men are taught to rely upon themselves they can never be truly worthy of the name of freemen.

The power even to refuse a good ... confers unspeakable satisfaction, and is essential to freedom. Even the simple consciousness in the bosom of a freeman, that he is absolutely one—that he is the untrammeled artificer of his own destiny, is in its very self a fund of happiness, richer, purer, and more precious than could be purchased by all the wealth in the world.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

The best agent for me is myself.

We always did everything ourselves.

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

I cant save you, you have to save yourself.

Today I will not wait for someone to come to my aid. I'm not helpless. Although help may come, I'm my own rescuer. My relationships will dramatically improve when I stop rescuing others and stop expecting others to rescue me.

It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.

Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.