Quotes About Self-reliance

The footprints of a free-minded man are always towards the forward direction.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

To me, an outlaw is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not. I did things my own way.

The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.

You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it's all a waste and a sin to take it if you can't use it.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to.

No man is hurt but by himself.

You don't have a man, you need spaghetti.

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you're a rich man….

There ain't many troubles that a man caint fix With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.

A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.