Quotes About Self-reliance

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!

The best is the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world, and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

Begitu anda percaya pada diri anda sendiri, Anda tahu bagaimana harus hidup.

Rich people believe 'I create my life.' Poor people believe 'Life happens to me.'

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.

I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can't live somebody else's life for them. They have to make their own choices, and sometimes all we can do is learn to live with them.

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

Go ahead without me, I'll find my own way.

It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you.

The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.