Below are the best quotes we could find on Self-Reliance and building character.
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The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years—I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.
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Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
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The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
