Quotes About Self-reliance

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

It is incredibly powerful if you solve the problem you actually have yourself. It's really tough to develop a good product when you don't have very close proximity to the people who actually use your product. The closest proximity you can have to those people is to be that person.

For many people, being asked to solve their own retirement savings problems is like being asked to build their own cars.

A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.

Colorado is a state that people like to be themselves and solve their own problems.

The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.

I think probably the moments of failure have been when I didn't really understand that other people were around to actually help me. There were moments when I thought I had to solve everything on my own, and I didn't realize that I had resources.

We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

Some men are much more self-sufficient than others.

Some people need safety nets. Some people need two safety nets. I've grown up with no safety nets around me.

Some people do better on their own. I don't.

If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.

I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

I have this ridiculous chip on my shoulder, having been a dancer, that I feel like I really ought to be able to do everything myself - but there are some things I very clearly cannot.

I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.

I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.

When I was little, I would open up lawnmowers and try to make them go faster. I wasn't strong enough to do some things, so I'd wait for my dad to get home from work to help me. He was great, but he never really encouraged me, and I'll be the same if I have kids: I'll leave them to do their own thing.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.