Quotes About Self-reliance

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

And man will go on. Man, not men.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice.

No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Out here a man settles his own problems.

Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]