Quotes About Self-reliance

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

I do my taxes. I do my own bookkeeping. I pay rent.

I have bought my flat myself and never charged a penny of it to the taxpayers.

Running your own business can be the loneliest job in the world. You are the MD, answer the phone and make tea, handle the invoices and have to make payments on time.

The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?

I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

I would really want to teach someone how to function without having to have plays called for you.

Everything I know and everything I got, I had to teach myself.

Teach your daughters, teach your granddaughters, everybody has to have something that they're good at where they can earn a living.

Priesthood quorums teach and assist their members to attain good health, financial stability, and a year's supply of food and clothing. They also teach their members to be self-reliant and to give their time, talents, and means in behalf of the Church, community, and needy.

If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.

I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

I learned so much because I moved out of my mom's when I was 18. It teaches you to be responsible, to be independent.

We feel free... Now we are really self-reliant. This is the great advantage of teaching ourselves to become a free people, no longer one that always asks, 'Aid, aid, please.'

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

There are no excuses in fighting. You can be playing a team sport and have a good game, and you can lose. In fighting, it's all on me. If I go out there and lose, then it's my fault. I like that.

Fighting is a very independent thing, and it's not a team sport, and it's not the NFL, you know, because we don't have to look the same.