Quotes About Self-reliance

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

He has to come to it on his own.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

Every man shall bear his own burden.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

We were not designed to be dominated.

Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry

Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.

The first move of leadership is learning to think for yourself.

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will.

The best way to learn is by doing; never ask others to do what you're not willing to do yourself.

The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Following the herd reduces you to a cow.

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

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

Parkour teaches you to be sure of what you are able to do.