Quotes About Self-reliance

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires.

Well, whose opinion did you take?" "I don't ask for opinions." "What do you go by?" "Judgment." "Well, whose judgment did you take?" "Mine." "But whom did you consult about it?" "Nobody.

But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue.

What are you really seeking?' 'Freedom – to want nothing, to expect nothing, to depend on nothing.

The thinking child seeks equals; the conformist seeks protectors.

If you want my advice, Peter," he said at last, "you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me.

I am a man. This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before!

Any human being who accepts the help of another, knows that good will is the giver's only motive and that good will is the payment he owes in return.

The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function through them. He is not concerned with them in any primary matter. Not in his aim, not in his motive, not in his thinking, not in his desires, not in the source of his energy. He does not exist for any other man—and he asks no other man to exist for him.

You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I—I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself.

Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

Money is made—before it can be looted or mooched—made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before!

So long as road lies before us, and what care we if we must travel it alone!

Those who wish to deal with me, must do so on my terms or not at all. I do not make terms with incompetence.

No principle ever filled anybody's milk bottle

And, after all, you've got to live." "Not that way," said Roark.

He was the type of person who believed he alone could do the job adequately and afterward complained that no one had helped.

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it.

We are the cause of our own sufferings.

Are you willing to die for yourself? If you want to be, you have to be able to take the very first step toward attaining that capability. You have to be willing to live for yourself.

Stop caring what other people think. How? Understand that this is your life, not theirs, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself if things don't work out the way you'd hoped...their opinion shouldn't matter more than your own.