Quotes About Self-reliance

Your life is your own. Rise up and live it.

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

My mother always said - "Never run after a man or a bus - there is always another one coming.

Remain independent of any source of income that will deprive you of your personal liberties.

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.

SELF-CONFIDENCE IMPLIES THAT YOU ARE CONVINCED YOU CAN ACT UPON YOUR OWN KNOWLEDGE.

One thing I can tell you is you got to be free

By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

Rather skin a carcass for pay in the public streets than be idly dependent on charity.

At once more social and more self-reliant than their British counterparts, they were men whose dignity had not been destroyed by a culture of dependence.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

I now believe as sincerely as ever, for all the laws that the wit of man can devise will never make a man a worthy citizen unless he has within himself the right stuff, unless he has self-reliance, energy, courage, the power of insisting on his own rights and the sympathy that makes him regardful of the rights of others.

You must do it alone.

for all the laws that the wit of man can devise will never make a man a worthy citizen unless he has within himself the right stuff, unless he has self-reliance, energy, courage, the power of insisting on his own rights and the sympathy that makes him regardful of the rights of others.

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.

This was my first real lesson in politics… If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't, so with men.

All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.

The only thumbnail you'll get from me is this: no one knows what's really wrong with you but you; no one can find a cure for it but you; no one but you can identify it as a cure; and once you find it, no one but you can do anything about it.