Quotes About Self-reliance

Keep apart, keep apart, and preserve one's soul alive—that is the teaching for the day. It is ill to have been born in these times, but one can make a world within the world.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure.Who cannot live on twenty pound a year,Cannot on forty.

It was a big thing to be a king. It meant that you were getting the feeling that you lived in a big room all by yourself where no one could see you and you were your own man. Free and alone.

If you want people to work hard and succeed, there are times when you've got to let them find their own way. Overmanaging is a constant danger.

By rebuilding community, we will renew democracy and the hope we invest in it. We will develop political systems that are not so big that they cannot respond to us but not so small that they cannot meet the problems we face. We will achieve something that, paradoxically, we cannot realise alone: self-reliance. By helping each other, we help ourselves. The strong, embedded cultures

The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of a sheep.

A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont

Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

Life would be much simpler if men could fuck themselves, don't you agree?

If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.

Soy mi propio campeón, mi propio bufón y mi propio arpista.

Begging for help never gets you any.

Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. Craster sprawls in his loft even now, stinking of wine and lost to sense. On his board below lies a sharp new axe. Were it me, I'd name it "Answered Prayer' and make an end.

didn't have a gun myself. I never do. Guns are a crutch for those who aren't in good enough shape to run. I did have my Swiss Army knife, but that was just in case I needed a compact burglary tool.

If you can't protect yourself, die and get out of the way of those who can.

Only a starving man asks bread from a begger

A part of all I earn is mine to keep.' Say it in the morning when you first arise. Say it at noon. Say it at night. Say it each hour of every day. Say it to yourself until the words stand out like letters of fire across the sky.