Quotes About Self-reliance

Lady Luck shines on all, but rather than having your umbrella overhead, you've got to have your face to the sky. When it comes down to it, it's all you, baby. There's no other way around it.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.

Once for all, break the "Let George Do It" habit. When a task steps up before you — take hold of it and do it Yourself.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinions of others.

master of his fate, the captain of his soul.

If you don't believe in yourself, how can you ask others to do so?

Es una inspiración para todos los que entran en contacto con su mente. La principal característica distintiva del no errante es esta: tiene una mente propia y la usa para todos los propósitos.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance. And the higher he lifts his thoughts, the more manly, upright, and righteous he becomes, the greater will be his success, the more blessed and enduring will be his achievements.

I learned that when one needs anything very badly, it is very difficult for him to find anyone who wishes to help him get it, but when one gets over the hump, achieves recognition, and no longer needs help, then just about everybody on earth wants to do something for him.

When you get yourself under complete control, you can be your own boss.

You have a brain and mind of your own. USE IT, and reach your own decisions. If you need facts or information from other people, to enable you to reach decisions, as you probably will in many instances; acquire these facts or secure the information you need quietly, without disclosing your purpose.

The fear of criticism robs man of his initiative, destroys his power of imagination, limits his individuality, takes away his self-reliance, and does him damage in a hundred other ways

Environment is a personal affair. So, if your present Environment hinders you, walk away from it. Hunt out a new Environment. Men and Women who form the habit of getting things done, make their own Environment, hour by hour — day by day.

If you don't believe it yourself, don't ask anyone else to do so.

The one thing that separates the sheep from the goats, and success from failure, is the ability to analyze, study and weigh problems for yourself, and to make decisions for yourself.

Don't ask advice. Size up and weigh the problem yourself and use your own best judgment.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven; the fated sky Gives us free scope; and only backward pulls Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. How much I could do if I only tried. * (1803-1873) English dramatist, novelist, and politician.

If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach decisions, you will not succeed in any undertaking, much less in that of transmuting your own desire into money. If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own.

Uno tiene su propia mente y su propio cerebro. Debe usarlo y tomar sus propias decisiones. Si necesita datos o información de otras personas para poder tomar decisiones, tal y como probablemente requerirá en muchas ocasiones, debe adquirir estos datos u obtener la información que necesita discretamente, sin revelar su propósito.

Only the autodidacts are free.

You can define a free person precisely as someone whose fate is not centrally or directly dependent on peer assessment.

Finally, when young people who "want to help mankind" come to me asking, "What should I do? I want to reduce poverty, save the world," and similar noble aspirations at the macro-level, my suggestion is: 1) Never engage in virtue signaling; 2) Never engage in rent-seeking; 3) You must start a business. Put yourself on the line, start a business.

Contra the prevailing belief, success isn't being on top of a hierarchy, it is standing outside all hierarchies.