40 Insightful Quotes About Not Depending on Others

Asking for help is something anyone should know how to do. However, leaning on people too much will prevent you from reaching your full potential. I've depended on others before, but I have grown so much as a person because I've decided to change that. These relying on people quotes can teach you more about what it actually means to depend on people. If you feel like you do it too much, let them motivate you to finally break free and be independent. In the text below you can find 40 insightful quotes about not depending on others.

• "Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently." — Maya Angelou.

• "I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself." — Charlotte Brontë.

• "When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you." — Lao Tzu.

• "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own, but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — Ralph Waldo Emerson.

• "Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land." — Walt Whitman.

• "Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds." — Bob Marley.

• "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself." — Michel de Montaigne.

• "Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been to. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don't want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you're doing here. Believe in kissing." — Eve Ensler.

• "If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them." — Michael Bassey Johnson.

• "Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got." — Janis Joplin.

• "Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time." — Sarah Dessen.

• "The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." — Carlos Castaneda.

• "I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone." — Katharine Hepburn.

• "You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself." — Neil Gaiman.

• "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." — Ralph Waldo Emerson.

• "You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves." — Abraham Lincoln.

• "Trust your instincts, and make judgments on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you." — David Gemmell.

• "You are constantly invited to be what you are." — Ralph Waldo Emerson.

• "We are so accustomed to the comforts of "I cannot", "I do not want to" and "it is too difficult" that we forget to realize when we stop doing things for ourselves and expect others to dance around us, we are not achieving greatness. We have made ourselves weak." — Pandora Poikilos.

• "Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day." — Sophocles.

• "The proverb warns that, "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But, maybe you should. Certainly, if it prevents you from feeding yourself." — Thomas Stephen Szasz.

• "It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself." — Epicurus.

• "You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence." — Abraham Lincoln.

• "She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears inside her, slowly, but getting stronger." — Catherynne M. Valente.

• "I'll walk where my own nature would lead. It vexes me to choose another guide." — Charlotte Brontë.

• "Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then." — Henry David Thoreau.

• "Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be saved by anyone." — Amanda Boyden.

• "Love unconditionally, but rely only on yourself." — Marty Rubin.

• "The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up." — Lailah Gifty Akita.

• "If love and friendship make you unhappy, try solitude." — Michael Bassey Johnson.

• "Some people believe, the destiny of humans is written by God, and I know for a fact, that human destiny is written by none but the humans." — Abhijit Naskar.

• "Be what you want your society to be." — Abhijit Naskar.

• "Self-reliance means respecting our own experiences, ideas, and traits." — Kyle Eschenroeder.

• "Walking alone on the path of justice and self-determination is more honorable than walking with millions on a path of bigotry, segregation, and blind loyalty." — Abhijit Naskar.

• "Make a happy life for yourself. No one will ever know how to do it except you." — Mitta Xinindlu.

• "Not being yourself is the worst form of self-disrespect." — Mokokoma Mokhonoana.

• "I want to know everything about my own self and never to have to rely on someone else to tell me the way I work." — Mackenzi Lee.

• "The best of being is to live the best life, doing what you love." — Lailah Gifty Akita.

• "Who wouldn't despair if their sense of self depended entirely on the opinions of others?" — Marty Rubin.

• "Born of self-reliance, such happiness inspires individuals to achieve the best for themselves as well as for others." — Dr. Prem Jagyasi.

Summary

These quotes about not depending on others can help you get stronger and people will now be able to depend on you. This is why it's so important to read "I don't need anyone" quotes, such as these. Learn whatever you can from them, and find the strength to do things on your own!