Quotes About Self-reliance

If you want to succeed in the world, you must make your own opportunities.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.

You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

The human mind prefers to be spoonfed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself- and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

Include me out.

Keep your promises to yourself.

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.

He gets a good hold on the paintbrush, then confidently has the ladder removed.

Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Man's security comes from within himself.

You are all you will ever have for certain.

No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. ... That was all wrong.

I... know what I do, and am unmoved by men's blame, or their praise either.

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

We Can't Afford to Doubt Ourselves I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door-or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

They are able because they think they are able.