Quotes About Self-reliance

McCabe's Law Nobody has to do anything.

A major stream of human accomplishment is fostered by a culture that encourages the belief that individuals can act efficaciously as individuals, and enables them to do so.

Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

Yes, but that was the way she wanted to do it. And furthermore she didn't want him going out there with her now. Three exclamation marks appeared over Norwood's head. No, her mind was made up.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.

Suffering is rightly called "the school of faith," for it is only through trouble, difficulties, and setbacks that we are brought to the end of ourselves. The normal human tendency, particularly for strong-willed people, is to rely on our own strength and resources. But when those are not available to us, when everything has failed, when we have to abandon every other hope, we are forced to trust God alone.

The only free man," he would say, "is one who doesn't work for anyone else.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have.

life could be wonder full if people would leave you alone...

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

What they didn't realize is that it was my world they were getting ready to go out into. I had been making my way in it since before they were born and had some things to say about life after cutting the apron strings that could prove just as beneficial as anything they had gotten out of their books.

I ain't askin' nobody for nothin'....so just leave this long haired country boy alone.

I can hold my own with any man." "Now, don't be modest, sis, you could thrash any man I know.

I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.

A man's own judgement should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself. Many men do this or that because someone else thought it right.

You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself.

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

But the habit of framing issues in terms of Asian and Western values did distort Singapore's view of its own challenges. Policy-makers looking through the filters of the Asian values debate tend to be unsympathetic to appeals for state welfare from down-and-out Singaporeans - since Asians are supposed to believe in self-reliance - rather than viewing them as the inevitable victims of capitalist industrialization and urbanization.

I am short and plain and far too particular in my tastes to settle for any man desperate enough to pay me homage.

was in Nicholas's employ, yet he walked

The father's job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into battle when it's necessary to do so. If you don't get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.