Quotes About Self-reliance

Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

I don't need a man in my life.

I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.

Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

Every man is the maker of his own fortune

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

I'm really a one-man band.

I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler