Quotes About Self-reliance

They are able who think they are able.

God helps them that helps themselves.

You, yourself, must make the effort. The buddhas are only teachers.

Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.

I have an inward treasure born within me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld; or offered only at a price I cannot afford.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.

Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way, without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs, digest the food, and shovel the shit out.

Borrowing is not much better than begging.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

A committee of one gets things done.

Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.

Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

True affluence is not needing anything.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at st have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

God same me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself, things like clean air, green grass, children with bright eyes, not being pushed around, useful work that suits one's abilities, plain tasty food, and occasional satisfying nookie.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within.

So long as I believe I have to do certain things, I will just go right ahead. That's how I run my life.