Top 54 Stand On Own Feet Quotes
#2. It's okay to stand on your own two feet and to be different, to be yourself.
Jared Leto
#3. If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.
Erich Fromm
#4. When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.
Damien Hirst
#5. Character, mon cher, does not stand still. It can gather strength. It can also deteriorate. What a person really is, is only apparent when the test comes - that is, the moment when you stand or fall on your own feet.
Agatha Christie
#6. Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains
in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#7. I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.
Ross Kemp
#8. Businessmen should stand or fall on their own two feet.
Edwina Currie
#9. You gotta stand up and walk, Gem," he said quietly, turning his back on them. "You have to walk out of here. Not just for them, but for yourself. Come on. You have to walk out of here on your own two feet."
So I did.
Alexandra Bracken
#10. In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.
Charlie Hunnam
#11. Muslims have not ever been told to examine their faith in a critical way, so the shock is going to be even greater for them, as it is for any child who lives in an over-protected environment, who suddenly has to go out and earn a living and has to stand up on his own feet.
Ibn Warraq
#12. Ee come a time when eby tub haffa res pon e won bottom, said Hepzibah, then translated: At some point in life, you have to stand on your own two feet.
Sue Monk Kidd
#13. NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
Henrik Ibsen
#14. Africa is like a child that immediately cries for its babysitter when something goes wrong. Africa should stand on its own two feet.
James Shikwati
#15. In the very desire for help one is apt to forget that the objective should be to enable the individual to stand on his own feet.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#16. My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.
Ron Reagan
#17. Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.
Sigmund Freud
#18. The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.
Zalmay Khalilzad
#19. I've always been brought up to stand on my own two feet and not rely too heavily on everyone else around me.
Emilia Fox
#20. See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two feet.
Paul Palnik
#21. Personal power is the ability to stand on your own two feet with a smile on your face in the middle of a universe that contains a million ways to crush you.
J.Z. Colby
#22. Today I, tomorrow you. But this need of help does not mean that the one is helpless, the other powerful. Helplesness is a transitory condition; the ability to stand and walk on one's own feet is the permanent and common one
Erich Fromm
#23. Everything is always on the table. I think it's one of the things that's made 'Arrow' special. But we also all collectively feel like 'The Flash' needs to stand on its own two feet, now that it's gotten its launch from 'Arrow.'
Marc Guggenheim
#24. You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#25. I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.
Diana Ross
#27. I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up
William Faulkner
#28. There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.
Banana Yoshimoto
#29. Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#30. When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.
Sunny Leone
#31. When she realizes that they are about to fall, she summons the strength to stand on her own two feet. Because that is what women like Britt-Marie do. They find the strength when they have to do something for others.
Fredrik Backman
#32. Questions, Hypothetical: Needn't be answered. No one knows why.
Schools, Public: They teach you to stand on your own two feet. 'No doors on the lavatories. That sorts the men from the boys'.
Snobbery, Inverted: The worst kind. No need to explain why.
William Donaldson
#33. We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.
Swami Vivekananda
#34. Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.
William A. Dembski
#35. He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.
Bob Crosby
#36. The world I held so closely, she played me like a game,
I released and left her laughing to stand on my own two feet.
Coco J. Ginger
#37. You've got one hero too many already. Stand on your own feet, Brother. It's good for the soul.
Dorothy Dunnett
#38. Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.
Virginia Woolf
#39. Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of ground your feet were placed upon, guided by chalk marks, he would not see the same things you did.
Cornell Woolrich
#40. Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.
Ezra Taft Benson
#41. I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.
Jim Gilmore
#42. If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.
Joel Salatin
#43. The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#44. From 16 to 21 when I was self sufficient and working in factories. I packed batteries, boxes, and make-up with heroin addicts. I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet.
Jay Kay
#45. First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.
Kristin Hunter
#46. I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.
Jay Kay
#47. Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown region.
David Malouf
#48. Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.
Chris Froome
#49. My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.
Nandan Nilekani
#50. Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.
Phillips Brooks
#51. I want to train my kids so where they are the only believers they can stand on their own two feet and teach others.
Francis Chan
#52. Afghanistan will, by the grace of God, stand on its own feet in three to four years time. Until then, of course, we need strong support from the international community, including the United States, to stay with us and support us fully.
Hamid Karzai
#53. You know, I agree with President Obama that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in time, we have to take the training wheels off and we have to allow those countries to stand on their own two feet.
Josh Mandel
#54. I'm not scared anymore. I will not let her terrify me. Or keep me on my knees. I'm yours, fully and unconditionally. For however long we get, I will stand on my own two feet. By your side.
Elle Aycart
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