Quotes About Self-reliance

In magic, man has to rely on himself. So, in religion, of course, you're looking for outside support but that's the appeal of magic.

I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.

We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.

You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength

It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Great men can't be ruled.

The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Every man for himself.

Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.