Quotes About Self-reliance

The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours.

I think the way to stop it is to shrug it off. Or take it with your tongue in your cheek. Sure, that's the system. At any rate, it's the system that works for you. It's the automatic control board that keeps you out there where nothing matters, where it's only you and the keyboard and nothing else. Because it's gotta be that way. You gotta stay clear of anything serious.

Insofar as we have freedoms, it's not because some great wise Founding Fathers granted them to us. It's because people like us insisted on exercising those freedoms—by doing exactly what we're doing here—before anyone was willing to acknowledge that they had them.

He goes his way Without relying on others And does not pride himself On walking alone.70

One of their best customers was an executive at Texaco, and one day Harry Ferkauf casually asked him about the possibility of a summer job for his son. "Harry, you know how I feel about you and Gene," the man replied, "but Texaco doesn't hire Jews." From that day Gene Ferkauf knew that if he was to be a success, he would have to do it on his own; the world's great companies were not interested in the likes of him.

Dependence breeds neither cordiality nor respect. - Pg. 77

be creative, adapt quickly, and rely on your wits instead of automated tools.

You have to cry your own tears because no one can do it for you.

I can help, but in the end it is up to you

You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

To be a free man, one must have a universe of one's own

There will always be a storm. You may be rained on or cause the rain yourself. I much prefer the latter.

And it relieves me to learn that you are not trying to make friends," the captain said, locking her hammerhead eyes on Ms. Price, "because no one likes you.

It would be a sort of Robinson Crusoe life, but with abundant materials for surrounding oneself with comforts, and improving the improvable among the natives. Clothing would require but small expense: four suits of strong tweed served me comfortably for five years. Woollen clothing is the best; if all wool, it wears long and prevents chills. The

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

We are free at last to believe in ourselves.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

God gave me both a brain and a body, and I shall use them both.

Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.

I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

God doesn't participate in the things we can do ourselves