Quotes About Self-reliance

It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

Free men set themselves free.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.

Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money.

I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.