Quotes About Self-reliance

We live in hell, Mason. We are born into hell. You fight or you go under. And anyone who tries to pull you out, gets pulled under too. All you can do is help people to help themselves. But the bottom line? You have to do it yourself.

It's neither safe nor practical to assume that man in your life can be counted on to take care of your finances.

Don't ever put your entire financial fate in someone else's hands.

The assets of the Jewish National Home must be created exclusively through our own work, for only the product of the Hebrew labor can serve as the national estate.

Codependency is when we look outside of ourselves to meet a need that only God Himself can meet in our heart. This is the primary strategy of political

What are the benefits of a Stoic life?" I would probably say, "It is an ancient and honorable package of advice on how to stay out of the clutches of those who are trying to get you on the hook, trying to give you a feeling of obligation, trying to get moral leverage on you, to force you to bend to their will.

You'll find that there's a strange freedom in letting go of your denials and fears. When you're prepared to accept that you are the one who makes things happen in your own life, you stop fearing the unknown and start realizing that you have control over every situation. It's up to you to make this work, which means that you have absolute opportunity to make sure it does.

é melhor ser o cão-guia da matilha por três razões. Primeira, é ele quem abre os caminhos; segunda, ele é o primeiro a ver a paisagem; e terceira, ele não fica olhando para o rabo dos outros o tempo todo!

We don't permit anyone to tell us our business, nor do we wish to tell anyone his. The same goes for moral outlooks. Don't tread on us and we won't on you. We're a tolerant, liberty-loving bunch, we Wolfes.

Build a man a fire and you warm him for a night. Set a man on fire and you warm him for the rest of his life.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

If you cannot harness the discipline needed to take control over your own life then you deserve everything that happens in your life and you forfeit the right to cry, complain and make excuses for why you are not where you want to be, have what you feel you should have and be who you want to be. As if you cannot work hard to improve yourself and your life what makes you think anyone will want to come be a part of your life if you don't care why should they

Keep your crumbs and the seats at your table, I will go build my own table and seat all Savvy Turtle's like me and we will change the world for the better

If I were a musical instrument, I would be… Drums as you can beat me all you want to but I still will do things my own way regardless of peer pressure.

structure your affairs in a way that enables you to realize full individual autonomy and independence.

For the first time, those who can educate and motivate themselves will be almost entirely free to invent their own work and realize the full benefits of their own productivity.

Ah, my Knight in Shining Armor. What, you don't think I can fend for myself?

Because the greatest value for this generation is nothing less than individual freedom.

If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.

Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.

I don't think he ever gave a thought to other people's opinions, which was just as well because they were often unkind

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to shop for fish at Whole Foods, he'll be broke within the year.

Sweeping the sheds. Doing it properly. So no one else has to. Because no one looks after the All Blacks. The All Blacks look after themselves.