“I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.”
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“You only grow when you are alone.”
“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.”
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.”
“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
“Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.”
“I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.”
“A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.”
“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.”
“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”
“The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.”
“I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.”
“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.”
“Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.”
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
“We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”
“There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.”