Quotes About Self-reliance

It is both possible and necessary that we work with wolves without joining the pack.

if you don't like my trumpet go try blowing one of your own.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself". - Jane Eyre

To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.

As an individual free to create the world we live in, I carry the cause for how my boss and others respond to and treat me. Once I understand this and stop trying to control them, I can get on with the business of acting on what matters.

Best way to survive in the wilderness is stay warm and dry and fed and don't get lost, but you make those arrangements before you go there.

His old Shaolin mentor, Ralph, had once said, "Some wolves are not born to the pack.

Being alone is a basic need of mine like food and water, but I realize it is not so for others.

America was founded by rugged individuals who created government to secure their rights and leave them alone. Americans today want government to violate other people's rights, steal their stuff, and give it to them. The home of the free has become the land of the freeloader.

Wisdom is about learning how to work through the unpredictable, uncontrollable messiness of life so you can figure things out on your own in real time.

Do you want to attend to this book or do you want to read by yourself?" The student responded, "Read by myself.

No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.

She must have been freezing, and it filled Pete with gratitude for the no-bullshit people of the earth, the people who knew what had to be done and would find their own damn coat later.

I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and thus he was free to think clearly.

You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”

Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.

You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ëNo one sees me.í Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ëI am, and there is none besides me.í

you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ëDid we not take Karnaim by our own strength?í

ëNo,í said the wise ones, ëor there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.í

For each one should carry his own load.