Quotes About Self-reliance

Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.

Better is the man of humble standing that works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.

A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.

His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

I am a man who does not exist for others.

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.