Quotes About Self-reliance

Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all the others, and if need be against all the others.

She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belongs to no man and to no city. She knows nothing of borders and invents her own rules and customs. 'Time' for her isn't something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.

It's a very New England thing, this being alone even though you don't want to be. It proves, I guess, that you're above being lonely and can take or leave friendship. So, then, I was a loner who wished not to be alone.

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren't infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free.

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

In the end, there is no substitute for clear thinking, logic, and common sense.... A better path to enlightenment involves reading and thinking for yourself.

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Self-reliance and arrogance have no place among God's people or in his kingdom.

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I think the best possible social program is a job

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

You should not need anything to wake up. If you can't wake up without it, it's because you are either addicted to caffeine, sleep deprived, or a generally unhealthy slob. It may seem like the end of the world to give up your daily dose, especially if your rely on Starbucks as a good place to meet men. But it's not heroin, girls, and you'll learn to live without it.

I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.

We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.

I understand that trying and achieving are the same thing when you are your own master—and I am.

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

The world went on the same after all. The same things happened every morning. So what if they did not like her? She would go on the same.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.

Girls without mothers either tried too hard or not hard enough; as they got older, they sometimes wore extra makeup, as if it could mask the fact they didn't know what to do, how to act.

You have to make yourself whole—no one else can.

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