Quotes About Self-reliance

I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

Be ashamed not of being single, or, unemployed. That comes standard.

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

By your own soul, learn to live. If some men force you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your song, dream your dreams Hope your hopes, and pray your prayers.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

There are no men like me. There's only me

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.