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Quotes About Self-reliance

Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.
~ Gary W. Keller
It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.
~ Joel Osteen
More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.
~ Gabriel Heatter
Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.
~ Heber J. Grant
Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.
~ Jim Rohn
Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means
~ P. T. Barnum
The turning point, I think, was when I really realized that you can do it yourself. That you have to believe in you because sometimes that's the only person that does believe in your success but you.
~ Tim Blixseth
The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.
~ Denis Waitley
Authentic success is living by your own lights.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
~ Helen Keller
If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your mind.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
Your dream was given to you. If someone else can't see it for you, that's fine, it was given to you and not them. It's your dream. Hold it. Nourish it. Cultivate it!
~ Les Brown
I don't really care if they like me or not.
~ Heidi Klum
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
~ Charlotte Eriksson
I feel like a big trend is just to model your success off someone else and I don't think that ever works in the long run.
~ Mamrie Hart
That's why I'm a success, it's because I don't middle in other people's lives.
~ Melanie Marquez
When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment.
~ Jim Fixx
Feminism's ultimate success is that we don't need it anymore.
~ S. E. Cupp
The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.
~ Andre Maurois
Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.
~ Susana Martinez
The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.
~ Frederick Lenz
I like collaborating, but I felt I should do my first single by myself so people don't think I'm leaning on other artists to be a success.
~ Missy Elliot
We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.
~ Nora Roberts
Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.
~ Paula Nelson