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Quotes About Self-reliance

The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.
~ Mike Weir
When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.
~ Adriana Trigiani
If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
~ Kwame Nkrumah
The best way to boycott is to build your own
~ Chuck D
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.
~ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!
~ Sammy Hagar
The best place to get help is from yourself.
~ Epictetus
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!
~ Shulamith Firestone
I am my best friend. Other friends may come and go, but I am always here for me.
~ Louise Hay
I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.
~ Len Wein
The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.
~ Patricia Briggs
I don't pay attention to what others are doing. I feel strongly that if I have correct goals and the determination to keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line.
~ Dan Dierdorf
Yes, it seems that as the President (George W. Bush) comes to the end of his two terms, he's finally realized the best way to get things done for you, is for you to do it.
~ Jon Stewart
The best revenge is to always survive yourself.
~ Henry Rollins
...the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards.
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.
~ Thomas McGuane
It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.
~ Aleister Crowley
Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.
~ Henry Ford
I don't know how people get so anti-something. Just mind your own business, take care of your own affairs, and don't worry about other people so much.
~ Betty White
I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
~ Paloma Faith
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
~ William S. Burroughs