Quotes About Self-reliance

I had never played a team sport when I was younger.

The reality is this: Fighting isn't a team sport; it's an individual's sport.

In basketball and football I would cry. I didn't understood why all my teammates weren't good. Then I started boxing and I knew it was different. I said, this is all me.

You just have your teammates and yourself out there to pick you up, so just kind of shows you how strong you really can be.

He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself." Mead, Richelle (2010-05-18). Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 39). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

I don't believe in angels, I believe in what I can do for myself

You have to help yourself first.

You have a guardian angel." "I don't believe in angels," I told him. "I believe in what I can do for myself.

You know what? As sad as I know this will make you, ladies, I'm going home and to bed. Alone.

I think the idea of holing up and hunkering down against the larger forces of the world has not lost its allure since Thoreau's time. If anything that instinct, or impulse, continues to reside in almost all of us, sometimes activated or bestirred and other times dormant but always present.

Perhaps you've heard the proverb, "Give people a fish and they eat for a day, but teach them to fish and they eat for a lifetime." Well, it is also true that "you can lead people to water, but you can't make them fish.

Goldwater's approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

If a caddy can help you, you don't know how to play golf. —DAN JENKINS

Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck

I'm a big girl, Finn.

This became our creed, almost a religious faith. Nobody knows and we would have to figure everything out ourselves

Their only real endowments were soft skills such as a willingness to accept the help of strangers, stubborn practicality, and the ability to live with uncertainty.

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.