Quotes About Self-reliance

There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

Teach a person to think and they'll devise a way to eat for a lifetime

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want call us and we'll show you how to live without it."

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

We downplay our excellence when we only depend on miracles.

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

I pulled myself back before wind could knock me down. I survived the wind and my own person.

If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.

You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.

Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our.