Quotes About Self-reliance

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.

Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.

You have to earn money the hard way. Because no-one will serve it up to you on a silver platter.

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.

work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.

I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."