Quotes About Self-reliance

It takes nothing to join the crowd but it takes everything to stand alone.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

Don't listen to other people, because their words don't define you and who you are!

Don't let other people's opinions of you, what you say and what you do influence who you are.

Never forget who you are. Only you can satisfy your needs and lead your life. Never lose sight of your humanity with all it's frailties. Be strong and never be led, instead be the leader of your own personal journey.

People will try to knock you down, you might feel worthless, useless, or stupid, but as long as you have yourself and remember who you are you will always be OK.

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Then isn't it better to do what's up to you - like a free man - than to be passively controlled by what isn't, like a slave or a beggar?

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

You at this time can only be destroyed by yourselves, from within and not from without. You have reached the point where the victory is to be won from within and can only be lost from within.

The Negro will have to build his own industry, art, sciences, literature, and culture before the world will stop to consider him.

Let no voice but your own speak to you from the depths. Let no influence but your own raise you in time of peace and time of war. Hear all, but attend only that which concerns you.

There's going to be a period of violent upheaval, which will impact upon our sense of security, our values and beliefs. The broadcast is about to be cut off. You can't rely upon the messenger anymore. But then, you never could. Rely upon yourself instead, and those you know and trust. Stand up and be counted. Be resourceful, be creative. Things can't ever be what they were, so don't try to go back. Don't numb yourself to life. Try to enjoy yourself. It's later than you think...

One day I'm not gonna be here. Then it's gonna be you two, by yourselves, and I want you to understand how rough and unfair this world is. I want you both prepared for whatever the hell might come your way.

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

though I have neither Power, Time nor Occasion, to be a great Conqueror, like Alexander, or Cesar; yet, rather than not be Mistress of a World, since Fortune and the Fates would give me none, I have made One of my own. And thus, believing, or, at least, hoping, that no Creature can, or will, Envy me for this World of mine, I remain, Noble Ladies, Your Humble Servant, M. Newcastle.

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

How must he prove himself? What was it they wished to know of him? And what did he know of himself here where loneliness was an unavoidable element of life, and a man must rely solely on himself?

I don't like taking from anyone. I'd rather be a giver, though not for any worthy reason. It's about control, obviously. If I give, I control; if I take, I am controlled. If someone offers me something for free I am at once suspicious.

beings, likely to be left alone, need to be fortified and furnished within themselves, and educationand thought have tended more and more to regard these beings as related to absolute being ...