Quotes About Self-reliance

My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

A man is no better than he has to be.

There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.

In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

Free men are the strongest men.

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.

Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.

I like being able to be a man.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

Don't be economic Girlie-Men

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.