Quotes About Self-reliance

To live alone, one must be a beast or a god — says Aristotle — leaving out the third case: that one must be both — a philosopher.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

When others, a man begins to blame He'll soon find himself alone, The same.

There are plenty of people holding flashlights casting shadows, offering directions. Perhaps it's best if you light your own way.

Do not fear a life without the presence of those who gave up on you. Instead, fear a life where you have abandoned yourself.

We must be our own, before we can be another's.

If we want to see change in our lives, we have to change things ourselves.

The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.

Was it just that the right man hadn't come along? Or did I simply not want to get married? The truth was probably a combination of the two. I hadn't yet met a man who interested me for any extended period of time, nor had I met one who seemed to offer a life that could be any more enjoyable than the one I was leading on my own. The problem was that married life seemed to me likely to be a lot less enjoyable than the one I'd built for myself.

A determined Yankee book drummer once told a Southerner that 'a set of books on scientific agriculture' would teach him to 'farm twice as good as you do.' To which the Southerner replied: 'Hell, son, I don't farm half as good as I know how now.

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

No need to teach an eagle to fly.

hey be ur own heck of a person, and dont copy what other people do or say. cause then it just makes u look really bad, then that person who u copyied will get mad at u. so grow up a little

You can't help people more than they want to help themselves.

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

She is a woman who needs someone to take care of her, but it isn't going to be me.

Leave my copy alone. You don't know what you're doing.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Now that I had become a man (with a leaky fountain pen to prove it), I was ready to take on the world.

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.