Quotes About Self-reliance

You don't need a man, you need a champion.

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves.

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight

Men aren't men until they can get to Sears by themselves.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

I tend to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.

If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.

A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot

Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.

He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.