Quotes About Self-reliance

Given a good pitch and the right amount of capital, any educated person ought to be able to make a small secure living out of a bookshop

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can still keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here"'—he tapped his forehead—'and you're all right.

If you've got any education, it don't matter to you if you're on the road for the rest of your life... If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can still keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here"'—he tapped his forehead—'and you're all right.

in Chicago in 1893. While they introduced the American people to such new words as reincarnation, nirvana, and Karma, the new religions also echoed the creed of self-reliance that had been an article of faith in American religion and culture for almost a century.

the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them

You first learned to live upon less than you could earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who were competent through their own experiences to give it. And, lastly, you have learned to make gold work for you.

You first learned to live upon less than you could earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who were competent through their own experience to give it. And lastly, you have learned to make gold work for you.

We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?

This shrewd deceit taught me my first lesson in looking out for myself.

You  first  learned  to  live  upon  less  than  you could earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who were competent through their own experiences to give it. And, lastly, you have learned to make gold work for you.

the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?

Así que el séptimo y último remedio para una bolsa escasa es cultivar tus propios poderes, estudiar y hacerte más sabio, más competente, para que te respetes a ti mismo. DE TAL MANERA ADQUIRIRÁS CONFIANZA EN TI MISMO PARA LOGRAR TUS DESEOS BIEN CONSIDERADOS. »Estos

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Don't think of yourself as a surrogate mule, think of yourself as an entrepreneur of the physical.

If this isn't the essential American story, I don't know what is: Guy hews a life out of nothing, by working every waking moment, with no education, no government help, no external advantages whatsoever, and no ulterior motive. What did he want? A place where his kids could grow up, with less fear and more material comforts.

endeavor to do something for us so that we might do something for ourselves. We are ready sir....

You can only trust yourself and the first six Black Sabbath albums.

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons, but you may depend upon it none of those knight-errants would be able to rescue one from a social fix, and you must own, Meg, that one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

It is high time you realised that you are of age, and may do as you please. Now, be off, and don't neglect to change your stockings!

Don't worry. Chivalry has practically no appeal for me whatsoever. -- Neville Fletcher

For he seldom fails who is not wanting to himself; while those who depend upon the assistance of others, appear very often to fall short of their aims.

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.