Quotes About Self-reliance

I learn much more by traveling by myself.

I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ways. I never fancied going faster.

I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like.

I've been doing things myself in the sense that I haven't had a night nurse or anything like that, so I've spent every night with baby except for the nights that I've had to travel.

I travel by myself a lot. Most of the time I'm by myself.

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Don't depend too much on anyone.

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

Trust nothing but your own experience.

Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself