Quotes About Self-reliance

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

I will be steel! I will build a steel bridge over my need! I will build a bomb shelter over my heart! But my future is a secret. It is as shy as a mole.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

When you get pushed down, you pick yourself up and move on. I've never been a victim.

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.