Quotes About Self-reliance

I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night.. or find food.. you can't think with the mind of a child. You have to think with the mind of a man.

Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness.

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

The externals are simply so many props everything we need is within us.

We have dared to be free. Let us dare to be so by ourselves and for ourselves.

A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

Freedom is a muscle...you have to exercise it.

The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

Where else can you be as free as by yourself in the middle of nowhere, or in the middle of the ocean, or on the peak of a mountain. Adventure is freedom.

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

Nobody will give you freedom. You have to take it.

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.