Quotes About Self-reliance

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.

The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you're a rich man….

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

I'll trust myself, myself shall be my friend.

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Hearken well: "None of us wants to hear spoken the exact anxieties we keep locked up inside ourselves. Smother that urge to go spreading news of your pain and nightmares around town. Bury your dead but don't leave a trace. And be sure to get on with things or we will get on without you.

Once you begin to feel you are making a go of it on your own—that you are making moves and thinking thoughts which seem to have originated within you—it is not possible for you to believe you are anything but your own master.

A people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. James Madison

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Mind thine own concerns.

Propria mea minte este biserica mea.

I choose my life to this free. I choose my life to be this way

I meant you can pick." "If

The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, and thus confronts them with the possibility of insignificance.

She seemed less my wife and more a woman in her own right, more self-reliant and independent. I felt I was looking at her in the round, so to speak, as one views a statue, from all sides, not merely a bas-relief with the figure partially imprisoned in the stone.

Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.

the more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Don't put your life in someone's hands They bound to steal it away Don't hide your mistakes 'Cause they'll find you, burn you