Quotes About Self-reliance

I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work. At 12 I was emancipated from my parents so I could sign my first record deal. I think I was born working!

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

I didn't want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn't want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.

The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don't want to be too dramatic, but it's hard. It's necessary to start most work alone.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

A lot of women have low self-esteem. I was just brought up around a lot of women and they were stern. Like, you don't need a man to do anything; you gotta take care of yourself, believe in yourself. My mom was like, go get it. And now I'm just a strong person, and I don't believe in giving up.

Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I'd be fine.

We all stick up for ourselves and I think that's why we stand out, because we really don't care what other people think.

Conservatism to me is limited government, liberty and sticking to the Constitution and realizing that government is not the solution to almost anything, that your community, your family is the solution to everything.

It's funny, but no matter how good an artist is, it's not until he stands on his own two feet and sticks to his guns that things are going to come together.