Quotes About Self-reliance

Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

Man I been did that. Man I been popped off. And if she aint tryna to give it up she get dropped off.

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man.

I have always run as hard as I can. You are not going to run any harder with or without men. You are running on your own two feet.

I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

No society can ever be so large as one man.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

I was forced to grow up quicker than most. I was forced to be a young man at a young age.

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.

I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.