Quotes About Self-reliance

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didn't - that I shouldn't grow dependent on anyone except myself. 'One of these days, I ain't gonna be here,' she kept hammering inside my head.

I've kept to myself, I've put my head down. I've gone to work. And I have felt undervalued.

On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.

I like to be in control of my own athleticism. If I win, I don't want it to be because of my lucky underwear, you know? I want it to be because I put forth the work.

Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.

I will never be unemployed.

Once I was unemployed and didn't have money, you can't just go to dinner. The onus is on you to learn to cook... I learned how important the right equipment is.

In American history, it's about hard work and self-reliance. It's not about collecting giveaways or being on unemployment forever. That the economy moves ahead for people who are going to work to realize the American dream, own a home, send your kids to college. I think it's the founding cornerstone of America.

Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up their minds for them. People have to overcome that.

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

I don't ever want to have to need someone again - where you feel like, without them, you can't be yourself.

I respect the decision of others. But I retain my own deductions.

Quit living for the world, live for yourself just you alone because it's starts with you.

You don't need anybody's permission to prove yourself, just prove yourself.

Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.

Define success by your terms, not by other people's standards.

What is my strength, that I should hope? Is my strength the strength of stone? Or is my flesh of brass? Is not my help in me.

A wise person is wise because he trusts his own being.