Quotes About Self-reliance

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

I never met a man I could marry.

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself

If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

Best is the man who thinks for himself.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.