Quotes About Self-reliance

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have the satisfaction of getting my own way.

It would be a little late in deciding now that we would not live our lives by the whimsical wisdoms of futuretellers, don't you think? [Chapter 33, page 386]

You are a gypsy, so you think it is only the freedom to move from place to place. Real freedom is a thing no one can take from you, because it is of the spirit. I keep it here. He tapped his head. [ Chapter 9, page 87]

Let every fox take care of his own tail.

Trust your ability!

Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or engaged in consumption...We lose sight of our resources, lose control over the environmental conditions which make these resources applicable, lose taste for self-reliant coping with challenges from without and anxiety from within.

You are in charge of your own positive direction. (by J. Bert Freeman)

Whatever the national or world scene and whatever the economy or the tide of war and peace, each of us has to live out our own lives.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

Never follow somebody else's path it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

The main goal of education should always be to learn how to learn, to become an independent thinker.

What we truly want is the satisfaction of seeing our children become mature, self-reliant human beings, at any age, thinking for themselves, free and happy. Parents who want anything else are obsessed with control and not free and happy themselves.

What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.

He didn't depend so much on the good opinion of others to feel complete. Nor did he expect happiness as his right any longer; he knew it was only for the strong.

An armed man is a little republic unto himself

He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at least that was the way it seemed at the time he had thought to himself, I am locked in, it was like one of those ghost stories where you wake up and you are sealed in a coffin.

I've gone from mistrusting my own instincts to knowing true confidence.

Nobody calls me a crybaby.

It was lonely in that damn motel room. When I'm on the road, I usually have a dog with me. Animals I like. People I learned a long time ago to do without.

autonomy without clarity is ultimately a disaster.

He glanced around, his eyes widening a little when he looked toward her bedroom. She winced, but resisted the urge to jump and close the door. He was staring at the poster above her bed, an image of Annie Oakley with the quote "I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.

ability to answer their own questions… Gradually, they acquire a skill shared by the greatest scholars in the world: the ability to educate themselves…