Quotes About Self-reliance

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

If you don't learn to feed yourself, you wind up dumpster diving for someone else's leftovers.

A man with a rifle is a citizen; a man without one is merely a subject.

Understand that no one can give you freedom. Freedom is a treasure that must be stolen.

One of the fundamental ways man adapts is to acquire and possess property. It is how he makes his home, finds or grows food, makes clothing, and generally improves his life. Private property is not an artificial construct. It is endemic to human nature and survival.

If I needed your condescension, I'd ask for it.

Yes, we are all alone in this world. At least, when it comes right down to it. We are by ourselves, even when we're with others. All our thoughts are ours, alone.

The state has gradually annexed all the responsibilities of adulthood - health care, child care, care of the elderly - to the point where it's effectively severed its citizens from humanity's primal instincts, not the least the survival instinct...They corrode the citizen's sense of self-reliance to a potentially fatal degree.

The Hill I have come this far on my own legs, missing the bus, missing taxis, climbing always. One foot in front of the other, that is the way I do it. It does not bother me, the way the hill goes on. Grass beside the road, a tree rattling its black leaves. So what? The longer I walk, the farther I am from everything. One foot in front of the other. The hours pass. One foot in front of the other. The years pass. The colors of arrival fade. That is the way I do it.

You don't need to look to other people to help you be successful. There's only one place you need to look in order to find the validation and motivation you need to find success. The mirror.

Pray? A waste of time. You do what you want, Adella, but I'll figure my own way, thank you. No reason to get God involved if he does not exist.

Trust in no power but your own, Emil. If you want to be saved, save yourself.

Life is so beautiful. Nobody can control your life

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.

You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves.

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

I always get the better when I argue alone.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

I love how you still think if you tell me to do something, I'll just check my brain at the door and do it.