Quotes About Self-reliance

The idea is to carry everything on your back, forget your troubles, and let tomorrow take care of itself.

I have been self-reliant to the point of sadness. I wonder when I first fell into the habit of washing my hands after each brush with humanity, lest I be contaminated.

So the best advice I could give a fifteen-year-old stuck in an outdated school somewhere in Mexico, India or Alabama is: don't rely on the adults too much. Most of them mean well, but they just don't understand the world.

It is often said that God helps those who help themselves. This is a roundabout way of saying that God doesn't exist, but if our belief in Him inspires us to do something ourselves – it helps.

I teach the kids history, or quantum physics, or art – but above all I try to teach them to think for themselves.

in 1987, Thatcher said, "There is no such thing as society. There is [a] living tapestry of men and women…and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves."1

Most Westerners today believe in individualism. They believe that every human is an individual, whose worth does not depend on what other people think of him or her.

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, "This sucks. I'm going to do my own thing.

No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

Remember that every man at times stumbles and must be helped up: if he's down, you cannot carry him. The only way in which any man can be helped permanently is to help himself." —Theodore Roosevelt

Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You are the only one who can do it permanently."—ZIG ZIGLAR

you will be on your way because you will have discovered that you can always find a capable helping hand at the end of your own sleeve.

Yes, real security is truly an inside job. It can't be given or provided—it must be earned.

I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's. I will never be a Mrs. Blabidyblah!

She had no God to plead to for mercy or luck. It would be true to say she depended instead on human kindness and painkillers.

the moment you follow someone else, you cease to be your own leader.

Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others.

We don't want to depend on things that might let us down.

Freedom is everything, but independence is nothing.

Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm he's cool he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.