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Quotes About Self-reliance

You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.
~ Farrah Gray
We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.
~ Ava DuVernay
Let us begin in earnest to work out our salvation, for no one will do it for us, since even He Himself, Who made us without ourselves, will not save us without ourselves.
~ Margaret Mary Alacoque
The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself
~ Brian Tracy
The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
~ A. A. Milne
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it
~ Lyman Beecher
If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.
~ Brian Tracy
I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.
~ Olivia Palermo
If you want something to work, if it means that much to you; KEEP IT TO YOURSELF
~ Michael Ealy
Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
~ Joan Didion, Blue Nights
The only thing I have learned is to find strength in yourself. No one can help you, no one can do anything for you, you have to do the work yourself.
~ Marina Abramovic
Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.
~ Gary Sinise
Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.
~ James Brown
Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do.
~ Heber J. Grant
I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.
~ Brad Pitt
My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.
~ T. Harv Eker
I dont rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success.
~ John Gokongwei
Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.
~ Richard Serra
Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.
~ Anson Jones
I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
~ Jack Kerouac
The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance
~ Gustavus Franklin Swift
Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.
~ Winslow Homer
I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.
~ Charles Bukowski