Quotes About Self-reliance

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.

If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.

Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

La socie te ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society.

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

I'm at that stage of life where I don't even care of people like me anymore. If you like me, Cool. If you don't, Okay!

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.

Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

What keeps us playing our parts and going round and round the three lower worlds is not a Divine dictate, but ourselves, our own will-to-live, which comes from within ourselves.

Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.

I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.

If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.

Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.

Living according to the basic gospel principles will bring power, strength, and spiritual self-reliance into the lives of all Latter-day Saints.