Quotes About Self-reliance

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own.

God sinks into dust before man.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

The concept of a woman with a terrible life who needs a man to come and rescue her, doesn't apply and isn't something we should probably be teaching kids.

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake and Palmer?" "Ralph and Waldo.

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.