Quotes About Self-reliance

In the real world, you can make your own miracles

If you want French fries, then make them yourself from whole potatoes and unrefined, unprocessed oil.

Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.

I didn't want to walk into the pages of McCall's magazine and become the model housewife. I didn't even want a husband or any man for that matter. I wanted to go my own way. That's all I think I ever wanted, to go my own way and maybe find some love here and there. Love, but not the now and forever kind with chains around your vagina and a short circuit in your brain. I'd rather be alone.

At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.

Now let me get something straight: you are not in my debt. You can't be. Impossible - because I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it. So please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or before you know it you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step downward to complete moral degradation.

Study it yourself. If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told.

Richard, Bill has the socialist disease in its worst form; he thinks the world owes him a living. He told me sincerely - smugly! - that of course everyone was entitled to the best possible medical and hospital service - free of course, unlimited of course, and of course the government should pay for it.

More depended on the student than on the school.

Ben Caxton, I will lie right here in the grass and starve before I will get up to push a button that is six inches from your right forefinger.

At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that "news" is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different—in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards'.

Pop says cops and courts no longer protect citizens, so citizens must protect themselves.

Çaban?n kendilerinden gelmesi gerektiÄŸi fikri... ve yaÅŸad?klar? tüm sorunlar?n kendilerinden kaynakland??? gerçeÄŸi... kabul etmedikleri ya da edemeyecekleri bir ÅŸeydi.

nobody has ever been able to keep a girl off her back when she decides it's time. When she decides—that's the key to the matter.

Decentralization, dear

Pop says cops and courts no longer protect citizens, so citizens must protect themselves." "I'm afraid he's right." "My husband, I can't evaluate my opinions of right and wrong because I learned them from my parents and haven't lived long enough to have formed opinions in disagreement with theirs." "Deety, your parents did okay.

Robert A. Heinlein

No wife, no horse, no mustache