Quotes About Self-reliance

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.

I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.

The man who follows the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

When is man strong until he feels alone?

No man should have another man's voice in his head.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.

Every man heals himself.