Quotes About Self-reliance

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

I do not choose to be a common man.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

When I was a kid, I slept on rubber sheets, but now, I'm a man. And I can take the wetness!

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

We don't miss you as you might think. You see, we have made it without you and will always. Take care, and don't ever return to Maasailand.

Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

the only person who can with absolute consistency be there for our inner children is us. And that's okay. That's enough. Once we learn how to do it.

This reactive approach to relationships is inherently individualistic.

Dr. Seuss once said, "You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own and you know. And you're the one who'll decide where to go."9

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROBLEMS THAT ARE THE RESULT OF YOUR OWN BAD DECISIONS. DON'T DISPLACE THE BLAME.

Os Hillman, in his book The Purposes of Money2, writes about four potholes on the road to prosperity: 1. Greed (1 Timothy 3:3) 2. Covetousness (Exodus 20:17; 1 Timothy 3:3) 3. Stinginess (Luke 6:29) 4. Self-reliance (Galatians 2:20)

because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.