Quotes About Self-reliance

I swore that if I ever had the opportunity to publish a book again, I'd do it differently. I wasn't going to get dressed up in my new outfit and wait for someone to knock on my door and ask me about my work. I'd put on my shit-kickers and start knocking on doors myself.

Always having to rely on herself, she had a hard time accepting the kindness of others, and her first instinct was always to say no.

Weak women get no respect.

All really educated men," he would soon write, "whether they have studied in the halls of a University, or in a cottage or a work-shop, are essentially self-educated.

Your momma and daddy leave you at some point, and then you are on your own.

The game had started. Everybody was assuring everybody else how reliable they were. In fact, nobody trusted anybody but themselves

I learnt the most important thing you have to know: how to look after yourself. To stand by your own decisions. I didn't become an author during my time in Paris, but that wasn't important. I took the first step towards becoming a human being with self-awareness. The big step forward after that discovery I had made -- that I am myself and nobody else -- while standing outside the community centre in Sveg.

call. I spent the next few hours playing poker with myself. It's the saddest expression of loneliness I know. I never feel more overwhelmed by weariness and unhappiness than when I'm trying to win money off myself. There is no deeper form of isolation.

Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it.

The gospel proclaims human freedom and dignity more than human enslavement and depravity. What is needed is a balance of biblical values and emphasis on the empowering quality of the gospel. The spiritual values of humility, long suffering, endurance, and obedience are to be affirmed alongside self-reliance, freedom, proclamation, mission, and authority.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

As long as possible live free and uncommitted.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

We have become the tool of our tools.

I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.