Strength To Stand Alone Quotes

#1. Many of us overvalue autonomy, the strength to stand alone, the capacity to act independently. Far too few of us pay attention to the virtues of dependence and interdependence, and especially to the capacity to be vulnerable.

William Sloane Coffin

#2. Have the self-confidence to say no when it is necessary and the strength to stand alone. Give yourself the approval to love and respect everything that you are and will become.

Jackie Olson

#3. A slightly uncommon condition of the some-long-word. Nothing at all serious, but it just needs putting right. A simple treatment.

Agatha Christie

#4. I could stand alone because I knew I was not alone.

Emma Raveling

#5. I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Dolly Parton

#6. Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

Grace Paley

#7. Heaven is the creation inconceivable to man; earth is the creation conceivable to him.

Karl Barth

#8. I have traversed many kinds of health, and keep traversing them ... and as for sickness: are we not almost tempted to ask whether we could get along without it? Only great pain is the liberator of the spirit.

Oliver Sacks

#9. There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

Ellen Glasgow

#10. I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.

Nicolas Roeg

#11. We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

Jean De La Bruyere

#12. With the strength of will, you can adapt to any situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita