Quotes About Self-reliance

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

Slowly you become your own man.

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

Anything a man can do, I can fix.

Men aren't as strong and capable as we are. We're machines.

At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone.

Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.

The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.

A man like me should carry his burdens alone. If he doesn't people get hurt

I always knew the woman I wanted to be-I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independent a woman who was in the driving seat, a woman who didn't need for the man to decide.

I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.

I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.

I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before!

No man is competent to manage another.

But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.