Quotes About Self-reliance

Freedom is not something you are given, but something you have to take.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.

How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?

Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.

If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.

That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

The object is freedom.

Remember, freedom is always taken, never given.

The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.

Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.

It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.

To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.

What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

Education is freedom. Education will teach you how to do it yourself as opposed to asking someone else to do it for you. And around it our own town... Freemanville!

From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.