Quotes About Self-reliance

What's the point of knocking yourself out for anybody but yourself? The answer was obvious. There wasn't any.

One man who minds his own business is more valuable to the world than 10,000 cocksure moralists.

They who lose their Hold do so from their own Want of Strength; but desiring to conceal their Weakness, they attribute the Absence of Success to the first Critick that mentions them.

Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams.

At home you could depend on your parents, but in America you are on your own and should make as many friends as you can . . . You don't know who may hold out a helpful hand in your hour of need.

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.

Other folks bread is the most virulent form of poison that a free and independent man can take; other folk's bread is the only thing that can rob him of independence and the one true freedom.

Independence is the most important thing of all in life. I say for my part that a man lives in vain until he is independent. People who aren't independent aren't people. A man who isn't his own master is as bad as a man without a dog.

But Bjartur wanted it to appear that his hospitality was a very minor issue. "The chief point," he said, "and the point towards which I have always directed my course, is independence. And a man is always independent if the hut he lives in is his own. Whether he lives or dies is his concern, and his only. Otherwise, I maintain, one cannot be independent. This desire for freedom runs in a man's blood, as anybody who has been servant to another understands.

Äsch, det är väl bara att banka ihop några jävla brädor, sa Bjartur.

My dear friends, my dear disciples, don't take refuge in anything outside of you.

Without parents who had time for her, at an early age she had made herself self-sufficient.

La libertad de ser libres significaba ante todo ser libre no solo del temor, sino también de la necesidad

There was no doubt in her mind about what she had to do now. She had to leave, had to go and take all of her

alone, said the mother, he is

If I have to cheer for you to know I'm proud," Dad once told Myron, "then I'm doing something wrong." Never

I allow no one to touch me.

I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.

I'm just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I'm honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don't care what people say. I never cared about what people say.

I'm from the 805, man. I don't have to talk about where I'm from, but I'm tough.

I'm gonna fall back, do my thing, but goddamn, I'm going to be a tough dude to deal with.

I had to learn to toughen up and fend for myself. You'd think when you have a lot of brothers and sisters, they'd come to your aid and rescue you a lot of times, but for us it wasn't really like that. It was tough love.

I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

When times get tough, we get tougher. Failure and government assistance are not an option for us.