Quotes About Self-reliance

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

Save now, so you are not dependent on your children when you are old

Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to rely absolutely upon the Spirit?

Stand up , be bold , be strong ! Know that you are the creator of your own destiny . All the strength and succour you want is within yourself.

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything.

Even as the lion, not trembling at noises; even as the wind, not caught in a net; even as the lotus-leaf, untouched by the water — so do thou wander alone like the rhinoceros!

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavour to accomplish it. That is a surer way of progress than taking up other men's ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish.

you should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do slave's work.

stand up, be bold. you are the sole and only cause.

When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves

We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

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

Only dead fish follow the stream.

Besides, far better always to fend alone than with an uncertain ally.

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.

Maturity begins when you are content with knowing what you are saying is correct, rather than prove that someone else is wrong

it calls for deciding things on their own merit, not because you read it or were told it or grew up believing it.

But what about me? Who will I lean on? I guess this is what growing up really means, Grace. Standing on your own two feet and being your own mountain.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

One doesn't become a witch to run around being harmful, or to run around being helpful either, a district visitor on a broomstick. It's to escape all that - to have a life of one's own, not an existence doled out to by others.

One doesn't become a witch to run around being helpful either…. It's to escape all that – to have a life of one's own, not an existence doled out to you by others, charitable refuse of their thoughts, so many ounces of stale bread of life a day.