Quotes About Self-reliance

In the evening of that day, after completing my preparations, I supped on the remaining portions of the sloth, not suitable for preservation, roasting bits of fat on the coals and boiling the head and bones into a broth; and after swallowing the liquid I crunched the bones and sucked the marrow...

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

Success in a free country is simple. Get a job, get an education, and learn to save and invest wisely. Anyone can do it. You can do it.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

The bottom line was that people who leaned too heavily on someone else were setting themselves up for a terrible fall, and they had no one to blame in the end but themselves for the hurt they suffered. Cork had learned the hard way.

one of the things a healer knows is that human beings already have within them an understanding of how to heal themselves.

don't worry about how things look. People are going to think whatever they think. To hell with 'em. You can't worry about it.

In small letters, now a little blurry, it read Omnia mea mecum porto, Latin for "All that is mine I carry with me.

Omnia mea mecum porto, all that is mine I carry with me.

I think that money it is the goal of cowards. Money is what you end up wanting if you don't have putz enough to stand up and decide for yourself. Money is what they want you to want so that you will work for them every day of your life and buy what they sell and fill your house and your soul with their junk. It is for those without the courage to decide for themselves.

Go not as told by others, But by other ways go.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

I don't like begging money from producers.

They that walk, walk with many. They that run, run with few. But those that fly, fly alone.

If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -

I have brought you to the treasure house of the world. If you leave without it you may henceforth blame nobody but yourself.

Except for little children, who must be rightfully restrained by their parents, no one should find themselves being controlled by another person.

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

La creación le había dado no solo una densidad insólita, sino también la capacidad de no esperar nada de nadie.

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.