Quotes About Self-reliance

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent

For to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy goal.

You're forgetting. A people who see themselves primarily as victims are doomed. And we're not doomed, are we?

Having discarded several older partners, the young man had no real business mentors, heroes, or role models and was beholden to no one.

Rockefeller advised Daniel O'Day that Standard Oil should develop its own strength in this area rather than turning to outsiders.

Rockefeller was now self-supporting and entirely free of his father

Yet she decided never to marry and to remain self-sufficient.

always inner-directed and indifferent to the approval of others

This refusal to truckle, bend, or bow to others, this insistence on dealing with other people on his own terms, time, and turf, distinguished Rockefeller throughout his career.

At one point, Bill suggested that if John didn't find work he might have to return to the country; the thought of such dependence upon his father made "a cold chill" run down his spine, Rockefeller later said.27 Because he approached his job hunt devoid of any doubt or self-pity, he could stare down all discouragement. "I was working every day at my business—the business of looking for work. I put in my full time at this every day.

He became so skillful that he built roads without an engineer.

Never lend your name, or your money, or your books or your umbrella, or anything, to anybody - if you're wise.

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.

You can't help those who simply will not be helped. One problem that we've had, even in the best of times, is people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.

Doing for people what they can, and ought to do for themselves, is a dangerous experiment," the great labor leader Samuel Gompers said. "In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends on their own initiative." The classic "liberal" believed individuals should be masters of their own destiny and the least government is the best government; these are precepts of freedom and self-reliance that are at the root of the American way and the American spirit.

aren't lazy or unwilling to work: they just don't know how to free themselves from the welfare security blanket.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

As always, when faced with a dilemma, he planned to by by his own set of rules. Act positively, plan negatively, expect nothing.

She had never allowed herself to be bullied, and was not about to start.

Self-reliance has nothing to do with selfishness Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it's simply a well that doesn't run dry until the day you die and you don't need it any more.