Quotes About Self-reliance

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.

Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.

Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.

I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.

The only real security is the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.

Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace.

Don't try to be happy, just be happy. Because your happiness does not depend on others. Be the reason for your own happiness.

Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

Just me and my nuts, that's all I got in this world.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

My philosophy has always been simple: Believe in yourself.

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.

Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.