Quotes About Self-reliance

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built.

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Or maybe when she realized that he was never going to come and rescue her, she did what all strong women do. She found a way to save herself.

I think it's important to be able to make something, whether it's shoes or sausage. Food, clothing, and shelter are the basic needs of all people. If you master a trade that serves one of those needs, you will work for a lifetime.

When you fall in love (...) it has to be from a place of strength. It has to be because you want to build something, not because you need to cling to someone to shore you up or save you.

The girl who built her life so carefully so she'd never have to ask anybody for anything. I have had it with me. Whoever I was!

Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another.

Self-help is the best help.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

It is no use being your own master unless you can stand up for yourself.

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

Inconspicuousness begins as self-protection but soon extends to self-reliance and a deeper appreciation of who we are and where we belong in things.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

We should forever forswear the masochistic process wherein we seek another's approval before we have even asked ourselves whether that person's views deserve to be listened to.

Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail.

We believe, as Nietzsche put it, that 'higher is not allowed to grow out of the lower, is not allowed to have grown at all .. everything first-rate must be causa sui [the cause of itself].

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

newspaper ads for lost pets and earthquakes that soon follow. Other studies indicate a higher rate of last-minute cancellations for airplane flights that crash. While we may be tempted to look outside ourselves for advice, we are all quite brilliant and know a lot more about our path and destiny than we recognize.