Quotes About Self-reliance

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Worse, Lee felt isolated. In Texas he skipped meals with others to avoid "uninteresting men," wishing he was back by his campfire on the plains eating his meals alone.211 He avoided sharing quarters and found that he "would infinitely prefer my tent to my-self."212 In a group he felt more alone than out on the prairie, and that "my pleasure is derived from my own thoughts.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle,

Fetch me the money box and some punkwood, will you, my boy?" Gannon asked him, licking the honey from his plate. (I fear table manners in the cabin-indeed, all manners-had suffered since Gannon and his son had been left to themselves.)

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

One thing the young were sure of; they would never again place their fate in the hands of an older generation.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

There is but one power to which I can yield a heart felt obedience, the decision of my own understanding, the dictate of my own conscience

Under all this lies the familiar logical fallacy, never expressed, but really the point of the whole, that we shall get perfect happiness if we put ourselves in the hands of the world-reformer. We

The fact that my neighbor has succeeded in this struggle better than I constitutes no grievance for me. Certain

Now, the aid which helps a man to help himself is not in the least akin to the aid which is given in charity. If

men who are taught to expect Government inspectors to come and take care of them lose all true education in liberty. If

Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For

Now who is the Forgotten Man? He is the simple, honest laborer, ready to earn his living by productive work. We pass him by because he is independent, self-supporting, and asks no favors. He does not appeal to the emotions or excite the sentiments. He

They are men who have no superiors, by

One who takes a favor or submits to patronage demeans himself. He falls under obligation. He

The free man in a free democracy, when he cut off all the ties which might pull him down, severed also all the ties by which he might have made others pull him up. He must take all the consequences of his new status. He

In a free state every man is held and expected to take care of himself and his family, to make no trouble for his neighbor, and to contribute his full share to public interests and common necessities. If

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.