Quotes About Self-reliance

If you're solving someone else's problem, you're constantly stabbing in the dark. When you solve your own problem, the light comes on.

If I want to know something, I'll go find it. I don't want to be pulled to anything.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

Only you can control your future.

Don't count on others for help. In the end each of us is in this alone. The survivors are those who know how to look out for themselves.

the strength to survive must come from within. Others will always fail you. Friends, family, fellow soldiers Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in the end, each person must stand alone. When in need, look to the self.

the strength to survive must come from within. Others will always fail you. Friends, family, fellow soldiers Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in the end, each person must stand alone. When in need, look to the self. The dark side nurtured the power of the individual.

You have to make your own chances.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

It had become evident to Tarzan that without money one must die. D'Arnot had told him not to worry, since he had more than enough for both, but the ape-man was learning many things and one of them was that people looked down upon one who accepted money from another without giving something of equal value in exchange

The world owes me a living, and it's up to me to collect it.

Love with her would be a field of action, not a need. She was complete whether she won or lost the world. She was her own fortress and her own sanctuary.

she did not suffer from her geographic isolation.

Taking responsibility means you don't blame anyone else for your difficulties. It also means that you don't blame yourself.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

In this hard struggle I had little refreshment but from the fountains of my own soul. Had I not clung to myself, the atrocity of others had made me a demon.

Observe Everything. Always think for yourself. Never let other people make important decisions for you.

He thought of one of the guiding mottoes of his father's life: 'Never apologize, never explain.

A man must believe in himself and his judgment if he expects to make a living at this game.

No, sir, nobody can make big money on what someone else tells him to do.

This Fura was different. This Fura was harder and scowlier and knew what needed to be done. This one could turn her back on her own dying father, or watch a blinded man whimper in pain and not give one cold cuss. This one could cut her own hand off if it helped. This one didn't care what people thought of Fura. And even as I cursed those tin fingers, which wouldn't yet do a tenth of what I wanted from them, I knew which Fura I liked the best.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.