Quotes About Self-reliance

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.

I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

Work like you don't need the money.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.

Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood.

Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.

People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house."

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.