Quotes About Self-reliance

From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master...

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.

not I, not anyone else can travel that road for you, you must travel for yourself.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Do not descend amongst professors or capitalists.

Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt, Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee, In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night, Kindling a fire and broiling the freshkilled game, Soundly falling asleep on the gathered leaves, my dog and gun by my side.

For America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without;

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

Leonardo da Vinci liked to boast that, because he was not formally educated, he had to learn from his own experiences instead

thus isolated, he became known for his brashness.

The maker culture in America, ever since the days of community barn raisers and quilting bees, often involved do-it-ourselves rather than do-it-yourself.

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone." His

A realm of intimate, personal power is developing—power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested

NeXT, 1988: Freed from the constraints at Apple, he indulged his own best and worst instincts.

If I were a young man again and had to decide how to make a living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher," he intoned to Theodore White of the Reporter magazine. "I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler, in the hope of finding that modest degree of independence still available.

Einstein later said, "it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority."57

I am impassioned for independence; I sacrifice all for it … and am tortured more by all the smallest strings than others are by chains.—XXI, 88.

A man must support his own weight, no matter how much money or power he has; that is the law of gravity.

Then Nimitz, being Nimitz, posted the usual watches and did the only thing that made sense to him. "On that black night somewhere in the Philippines," he later recalled, "the advice of my grandfather returned to me: 'Don't worry about things over which you have no control.' So I set up a cot on deck and went to sleep.

No drone shall feed on my honeycomb.

We are so apt, in our engrossing egotism, to consider all those accessories which are drawn around us by prosperity, as pertaining and belonging to our own persons, that the discovery of our unimportance, when left to our own proper resources, becomes inexpressibly mortifying.

I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing.

I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take control of your world.