Quotes About Self-reliance

Do for yourself or do without.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

Independence is happiness.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

Every man paddles his own canoe.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

My future is one I must make myself.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.

No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being ... must come from within.

There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.