Quotes About Self-reliance

The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men.

The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

My goal is to make everybody skilled enough to be able to be their own doctor, their own nutritionist. Because all of us intrinsically have that inside of us.

If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.

Just do your best. I find that if I set that goal for myself and no one else, I feel good.

I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don't have someone next to me saying, 'Here you go, now do this, it's your next step, go for it.'

Marriage was never my goal, because I've never been very traditional.

You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves.

We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and you get rid of him all weekend.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

I've realized that instead of posting all my problems on Facebook, its better to find solutions for them on Google.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dont be a woman that can manage multiple men without them knowing.. be a woman that knows she couldnt be managed by a man.

A scorned woman wants revenge, a strong woman moves on.

It's sad how so many women would rather stay single because they're tired of giving their everything and ending up with nothing.

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

Its important for women not to find their confidence in a man. I think you really have to know who you are before you can truly fall in love and give your all, and I dont think a man can define you. You have to own that.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.