Quotes About Self-reliance

Pay attention, people! There's no excuse for making the same mistakes that others have made. If you do, it's your own fault and you should expect no sympathy, no compassion.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

I recognized exactly where she was—that state where you're able to hold it together as long as absolutely no one talks to you or touches you with any amount of sympathy.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else's, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

No one can take it away from you.

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you.

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

You aren't accountable to anyone, teachers or family but to yourself. Make sure your surrounding s are clean in all aspects

I was always my own teacher.

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.