Quotes About Self-reliance

Scratch yourself with your own nails; always do your own business, and when you intend asking for a service, go to a person who can appreciate your merit.

I must shape my own coat according to my cloth, but it will not be after the fashion of this world, God willing, but fit for me.

Because if you are the mess, you can clean it. Improvement doesn't depend on others.

I have saved myself—what care I for that shield? Away with it! I'll get another one no worse.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

Even if the world thinks so, I'll never think so.

Vivrò il destino come ho scelto da solo. Perciò non tornerò indietro.

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

My desire was to leave home in an organized way. Because I was still just a kid, I decided that the best course for independence was to mind my own business and make my own money. I would do any kind of work. I was not shy at all about picking up a shovel and digging.

But here God didn't come. We were all on our own.

The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.

Put as much pressure on me as possible. I have no qualms handling that, because I expect that out of myself.

I feel I'm my own quarterback and have accomplished my own things.

I was an athlete in college - a quarterback, a leader - so people telling me what to do doesn't work.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

I went to Manchester, didn't know anyone, got a job as a runner and worked my butt off. I got paid 60 quid a week, and lived above a pub.

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.

It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.

I've always liked to be on my own, since I was young. I like the sound of a quiet place. It helps me focus.