Quotes About Self-reliance

I did not have a godfather.

I have no godfather.

Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.

I haven't gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don't know.

As far as I'm concerned, I don't really care anymore what people think about me. I'm just gonna be me.

I'm not gonna give anybody the power to control my life.

People don't really give me much anymore, and for good reason. I have to pay for a lot of stuff now, I can afford a lot more than I ever could before. No one really gives me anything anymore, but it feels good.

People really haven't seen me in good shape. I understand that. I created that by myself. There is no one else to blame but me.

I had to find my own path, and in some ways, it's been a good thing.

This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.

No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!

I live in my own place. I never copied anybody, not even half. And at any master who lacks the grace to laugh at himself, I laugh.

I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free.

If a slave has a bad master, his ambition is to get a better; when he gets a better, he aspires to have the best; and when he gets the best, he aspires to be his own master.

Bir kez okumay? öÄŸrendikten sonra sonsuza dek özgür olacaks?n?z.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. --Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

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while you have strong frames and robust constitutions, you have not the gift of intellect—you could not think for yourselves—you could not provide for yourselves—so the Lord in his infinite goodness has given you kind masters to think for you—[laughter].

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

There is a false saying: "How can someone who can't save himself save others?" Supposing I have the key to your chains, why should your lock and my lock be the same?

No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!