No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

If it is to be, it is up to me.

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense Ken Keys, JR The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself. True happiness is born of self-reliance.