Quotes About Self-reliance

Empowered Women 101: Confident women know the difference between being a meal ticket and being the meal.

You have 100% control over yourself, and your life. It is up to you to stop giving your power away, and to decide what you want to be, do, or have...and go after it.

Having total belief in your own efforts can't help much but can only be your best point of total failure.

If I am not for myself who is for me?

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else.

Strong people don't need strong leaders.

Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

Listen to your inner voice. Trust your intuition. It's important to have the courage to trust yourself.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.

The greatest thing my dad taught me came from when I called him from a phone booth and said, 'Hungry. No bus token. Please. Out of options.' He said, 'Pfft, get a job.

At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 Magnum .

I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.