Quotes About Self-reliance

The rules are mine to set. What I don't believe in is playing by other people's rules.

If you want to turn your life around you're going to have to start making things happen and stop allowing things to happen to you.

One who is Master of himself is always a King, if only to himself.

Let me remind you that the measure of any one's freedom is what he can do without.

No man can use his brain to think for another.

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.

It's easier to just be single and not have a relationship.

I'm always battling how to be in a relationship while simultaneously maintaining my independence and my career.

If there's three boxes that say 'Single', 'In a Relationship, ' and the third one says 'Getting Money', I'd check the third one.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

My own mind is my own church.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

We are our own gods.