Quotes About Self-reliance

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

I've got no one to blame for every time I feel lame.

I cut my own hair most of the time. You just do it all by feel.

If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.

I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.

Why is it that any time government takes over something for a few years, its assumed that people are too incompetent to do it for themselves?

I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.

I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being.

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.

I'm not a fool and I won't be taken for a ride. I will stand up for my self but at the same time I don't presume the worst and I don't see people coming at me with negativity. Until they do.

The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.

Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.

The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I 'uz mos' to de foot er de islan' b'fo' I found' a good place. I went into de woods en jedged I wouldn' fool wid raffs no mo', long as dey move de lantern roun' so. I had my pipe en a plug er dog-leg, en some matches in my cap, en dey warn't wet, so I 'uz all right.

Outside influences, outside circumstances, wind the MAN and regulate him. Left to himself, he wouldn't get regulated at all, and the sort of time he would keep would not be valuable. Some rare men are wonderful watches, with gold case, compensation balance, and all those things, and some men are only simple and sweet and humble Waterburys. I am a Waterbury.

O, sons of classic Italy, is the spirit of enterprise, of self-reliance, of noble endeavor, utterly dead within ye? Curse your indolent worthlessness, why don't you rob your church?