Quotes About Self-reliance

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning, but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel.

Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.

Always be yourself. Express yourself, have faith in yourself. Don't go looking for a successful personality and just duplicate it.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book

Having one's own will. — What does self-willed mean? Hell, isn't it knowing above all, that, indeed, one is the captain of one's soul, the master of one's life? Now what causes such realization and, consequently, brings about a change in one's behavior? TO BE REAL, TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONESELF.

A wise man can always be found alone. A weak man can always be found in crowd.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

education is what makes a man free!

Therefore, even more than at the times fairy tales were invented, it is important to provide the modern child with images of heroes who have to go out into the world all by themselves and who, although originally ignorant of the ultimate things, find secure places in the world by following their right way with deep inner confidence.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.

We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

He is able who thinks he is able.

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.

Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.

Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself for a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

I stand alone here upon an open sea, with two oceans and a whole continent between me and law.

For a long time, now, the circus-running sun had raced within his fiery ring, and needs no sustenance but what's in himself. So Ahab.

Just because some man pays you some attention doesn't mean you're somehow obliged to devote your life to him. You're worth MORE than that.