Quotes About Self-reliance

Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves; don't accuse the sun of partiality.

Under normal periods, any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making excuses, that's the day you start your move to the top.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself, and no one else, has made it.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

God helps those who help themselves.

The gods help those who help themselves.

My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

A man is a lion in his own cause.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.

For birth control I rely on my personality.

The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.