Quotes About Self-reliance

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings

How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?

The free man is a warrior.

Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.